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They dubbed their project—which they conceived in one month last fall—SECURE, or single-rescuer emergency CPR while unrestrained in reduced-gravity experiment...
Previous experiments had proven that an unrestrained victim of cardiac arrest could be intubated for an ideal airway to the lungs, and that CPR performed for an unrestrained victim and rescuer could be a feasible procedure...
...NASA protocols call for patient and rescuer to be restrained using a system called Crew Medical Restraint System (CMRS),” Lee said. “It takes at least four minutes and more than one person to set everything up. Four minutes is an eternity—the person runs the risk of going brain-dead...
...Harvard experiment was designed to show that full CPR can be performed on an intubated patient by a single rescuer, with both floating freely. The rescuer would use a “reverse bearhug” position similar to that of the Heimlich maneuver...
...DIED. IRENE GUT OPDYKE, 81, Polish-born author whose 1999 memoir, In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer, told how she saved the lives of 12 Jews during World War II by becoming the mistress of a 70-year old German officer; in California. Opdyke-a devout Catholic-later said, "It was a small price to pay." In 1982 she was recognized by the Holocaust memorial in Israel as "Righteous Among the Nations," the highest honor awarded to non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews...