Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

On Mon, 05 May 2008 14:24:11 GMT, Ronald Raygun
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wrote:

>TonyB wrote:
>
>> True life saving first aid can pretty much be done with your hands
unless
>> you're a doctor with a medical pack aboard. In mine I ought to put some
>> airways
>> and IV cannulae, but that's only because I can use 'em, although anyone
>> can swot up on airways and have a go - if the patient is going to
>> die anyway you can't do much harm.
>
>I suppose that's true, but our have-a-go hero might have mis-*****sed
>whether the patient really was going to "die anyway".  For all we know
>he might have recovered unaided, had he not died from the consequences
>of being stabbed in the throat with a biro.

An 87 year old woman told us that when she was in a Dutch hospital
recently with
some sort of respiratory infection , the doctor asked her " Would you like
us to
reanimate you if the need arises?". 
-- 

Martin