Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

On Tue, 06 May 2008 22:04:29 GMT, Paul Cooper
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wrote:

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

I suspect if you were really asked the same question you would answer:
Yes!
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Martin