Early Defibrillation
Submitted by rumple1 on February 28, 2011
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Early Defibrillation
EARLY DEFIBRILLATION
“In 1978 the same year he won election to the first of his five terms as a Wyoming congressman, Dick Cheney had his first heart attack. He suffered another attack in 1984 and then a third in 1988 at age 47, but heart bypass surgery stabilized his condition until November 2000†(Fred Pampel, Seth Pauley; Praeger, 2004) (p3). While many of us live a very healthy lifestyle, there are people in the same predicament as Mr Cheney. We work, play, and eventually marry and have children. Some people don’t get a chance to live life to the fullest extent because they die of a condition called cardiac arrest. According to...
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