Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

On Tue, 06 May 2008 23:29:26 +0200, Martin <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>So should she have said no?

Well, it's a good question! CPR has a low likelihood of success (much
less than 50%) despite TV programmes like Casualty, the person on whom
it has done is likely to suffer serious injury (broken bones), and
will STILL be direly ill with a low probability of long term survival.
There are cir***stances where I'd say "no" if I were asked, and I
hoipe my nearest and dearest would have the sense to say "no" for me
if I couldn't.  And I have been in a real situation with a close
relative, where the doctors advised that CPR wasn't a sensible
possibilty; the person concerned was too weak and too ill to have a
significant chance of survival even if CPR was (by a remote chance)
successful. 

Paul