Monthly Archives: April, 2011
9 year old saves sister with CPR!
MESA, AZ – People are calling a 9-year-old boy a hero after he saved his baby sister’s life with CPR.
According to Mesa Fire Department spokesman Capt. Forrest Smith, the girl fell into her grandmother’s swimming pool around 9 a.m. Sunday near Sossaman and Guadalupe roads.
Smith said the girl’s mother found her floating in the pool [...]
Most stroke patients not getting clot-busting treatment in timely manner
American Stroke Association Meeting Report Study Highlights:
Less than one-third of stroke patients treated with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) received the clot-busting drug within 60 minutes or less of their arrival.
A hospital arrival-to-treatment initiation time known as [...]