Re: First Aid kit - expiration of items?

On May 8, 10:08=A0pm, "Peter HK" <nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "PyroJames" <DrPyroJa...@[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
like=
ly
> 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.

Hmm, that's what I thought.