Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

"PyroJames" <DrPyroJames@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message

That is the trouble with statistics. I don't doubt the figures you
quote are correct, but you have taken the subset of people already in
hospital care. It may be the case that people outside have a lower
survival rate, or a higher one. The only case with which I have been
involved, was of someone suffering a heart attack while driving and
cra****ng in front of me. She was revived at the roadside. (She may
have been the 2%, I guess).

Actually a heart attack is the most resuscitatable situation which is why 
the coronary care figures are not too bad. Also trials show that with a 
rapid ambulance response, especially when equiped with automatic 
defibrillators and when the population has had some CPR training then 
survival from out of hospital arrests is nearly as high. She was more
likely 
in the 30%

As I said, the figures for patients in hospital with serious illnesses, 
often multiple, usually older, is not good.
These are the ones with whom we discuss not for resus orders.

Peter HK