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After all, how do you use a defibliator on someone who's chest has been cracked open and is exposed for the world to see?
Originally posted by Skibum
After all, how do you use a defibliator on someone who's chest has been cracked open and is exposed for the world to see?
They made special defibrillators for direct contact with the heart. Thet look kinda like spoons. Its actually more effective then external defibrillation.
[edit on 25/3/05 by Skibum]
Originally posted by marg6043
By the way they still do that back home is not a joke.
Originally posted by elevatedone
My Great Grandmother had never been to a doctor since she was a little kid... lived to be 101.
Originally posted by junglejake
(...After all, how do you use a defibliator on someone who's chest has been cracked open and is exposed for the world to see?)
Originally posted by Cherish
special little defibrillator (not defibliator)
Originally posted by sardion2000
Uhh you all know that without doctors the life expantancy would still be in the mid-30s so they have saved waaaay more lives then they have accedentally killed. Just thought I'd throw that in there.
In 2002, there were 30,242 firearm-related deaths in the United States, including 17,108 (57%) suicides, 12,129 (40%) homicides (including 300 deaths due to legal intervention/war), and 1,005 (3%) undetermined/unintentional firearm deaths. CDC/National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 5, October 12, 2004, p.77.
In the United States in 2002, 67% of all homicides and 54% of all suicides resulted from the use of a firearm. CDC/National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 53, No. 5, October 12, 2004, p. 32.
Firearm injuries are the second leading cause of injury death in the United States, and have killed more than 28,000 Americans every year since 1972. CDC/National Center for Health Statistics, 2004.
In 2002, the demographic groups (by age, race, and gender) with the highest firearm injury death rates in the United States were black males aged 20-24 (105.5 homicide deaths per 100,000 population), followed by white males aged 85 and older (40.9 suicide deaths per 100,000 population). CDC/National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, WISQARS Injury Mortality Reports 1999-2002 www.cdc.gov...
More than 700 women every year are shot and killed as victims of domestic violence in the United States, representing 20% of all female homicide victims. Homicide Trends in the US. Intimate homicide and Homicides by relationship and weapon type. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 2002.
The rate of death from firearms in the United States is eight times higher than that in its economic counterparts in other parts of the world. In the United States, more than 16 cases of nonfatal, unintentional gunshot injuries occur for every unintentional shooting death; nonfatal firearm assaults outnumber gun homicides by a ratio of 4:1. In contrast, firearm suicide attempts result in death in approximately 85% of cases. Kellermann AL and Waeckerle JF. Preventing Firearm Injuries. Ann Emerg Med July 1998; 32:77-79. 1/20/05 U.S. Firearm Homicide and Suicide Facts