Chiropractic Healthiness

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This would probably be dependent on how long the person has been in the water. Many times a person will develop a laryngospasm when water enters their airway causing a "dry" drowning (very little water in lungs). If the person has been in the water for a very short period of time, and water has enetered their lungs,  the Heimlich Manoeuver (abdominal thrusts) may be effective…or just lifting them up by their ankles and letting gravity work may do the same thing.   If the person has been in the water for several minutes without oxygen, their heart would start to fibrillate and you would not have a palpable pulse…the treatment for this would be CPR. If someone is doing proper CPR, the circulation of blood by chest compressions should cause the fluid in the lungs to pass into the bloodstream of the pulmonary circulation and eventually clear the lungs…(in prehospital situations many drugs are delivered directly into the lungs through an endotracheal tube).   Also if the person has been submerged for a long period of time their lungs would become saturated with water…not just the tubes inside the lungs but all of the tissue of the lungs (pulmonary edema)…even if you were to just clear the fluid in the tubes, by a Heimlich, the water in the tissues would refill the tubes. A first-aider performing CPR, under the AHA guidelines, should perform abdominal thrusts anyway after they have determined the person is unresponsive, called 911, opened the airway by a head tilt / chin lift, attempted to ventilate (unsuccessfully), repositioned the airway (redo head tilt / chin lift…could have been the tongue blocking the airway), then done abdominal thrusts (because you wouldn’t know if it was water or say a frog blocking their airway). Steve Hampton (Paramedic Ontario, Canada)

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> This potentially life-saving info came via Dr. Mel Siff… > <HEALTHNETDAILY > Heimlich maneuver can prevent drowning – Celebrated technique for helping > choking victims has new application > By Julie Foster (2000 WorldNetDaily.com) >  The Heimlich maneuver, the universally preferred technique  used to aid > choking victims, can also be used to save drowning victims’ lives as well, > the Heimlich Institute announced yesterday. > Although the American Heart Association has recommended using mouth-to-mouth > resuscitation for drowning, the practice is dangerous because rescuers are > unable to blow air into water-blocked lungs, the institute explains. >  In drowning cases, "the first step should be the Heimlich maneuver. In a > matter of seconds, it clears the airway of water, enabling the victim to > breathe," said Dr. Henry Heimlich, president of the institute that bears his > name. >

<http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20001201_xnfoj_heim… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> .s > html> > Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C. > 8948 SW Barbur Blvd > Box 6 > Portland, OR 97219 > FAX (815) 366-2814 > TEL (503) 640-0456 > http://www.egroups.com/group/chiro-list > IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m not licensed anywhere – by choice… > See OBCE/Whether to x-ray Medicare patients/Atlas Shrugs – lies through his > teeth (again) > Before we teach more MDs how to manipulate the spines of adults… > http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/18/26/21.html > …maybe we should stop MDs from GRUESOMELY manipulating the spines of > babies? > Copied to Dynamic Chiropractic editor Donald M. Petersen, Jr at > Copied to Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners Exec. Dir. Dave McTeague > ATTENTION Mr. McTeague: Have you forwarded my posts (see OBCE/Whether to > x-ray, URL above) to the members of OBCE yet? Remember: In addition to the > truly massive medical crimes I am > pointing out – there is the matter of DC radiation fraud – including the > matter of the American Chiropractic Association exhorting state boards to > fraudulently infer that DCs were being tested all along on how to diagnose > subluxation on x-ray…

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This potentially life-saving info came via Dr. Mel Siff… <HEALTHNETDAILY Heimlich maneuver can prevent drowning – Celebrated technique for helping choking victims has new application By Julie Foster (2000 WorldNetDaily.com)  The Heimlich maneuver, the universally preferred technique  used to aid choking victims, can also be used to save drowning victims’ lives as well, the Heimlich Institute announced yesterday. Although the American Heart Association has recommended using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation for drowning, the practice is dangerous because rescuers are unable to blow air into water-blocked lungs, the institute explains.  In drowning cases, "the first step should be the Heimlich maneuver. In a matter of seconds, it clears the airway of water, enabling the victim to breathe," said Dr. Henry Heimlich, president of the institute that bears his name. > <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_fosterj_news/20001201_xnfoj_heim… .s html> Todd D. Gastaldo, D.C. 8948 SW Barbur Blvd Box 6 Portland, OR 97219 FAX (815) 366-2814 TEL (503) 640-0456 http://www.egroups.com/group/chiro-list IMPORTANT NOTE: I’m not licensed anywhere – by choice… See OBCE/Whether to x-ray Medicare patients/Atlas Shrugs – lies through his teeth (again) Before we teach more MDs how to manipulate the spines of adults… http://www.chiroweb.com/archives/18/26/21.html …maybe we should stop MDs from GRUESOMELY manipulating the spines of babies? Copied to Dynamic Chiropractic editor Donald M. Petersen, Jr at Copied to Oregon Board of Chiropractic Examiners Exec. Dir. Dave McTeague ATTENTION Mr. McTeague: Have you forwarded my posts (see OBCE/Whether to x-ray, URL above) to the members of OBCE yet? Remember: In addition to the truly massive medical crimes I am pointing out – there is the matter of DC radiation fraud – including the matter of the American Chiropractic Association exhorting state boards to fraudulently infer that DCs were being tested all along on how to diagnose subluxation on x-ray…

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