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Everything posted by Parafox
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Depending on the age, yes. Older people often have brittle bones and the crunch and feel of the sternum detaching from the ribs is unmistakeable.
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When ambulance staff get called to a cardiac arrest, dispatchers always send a responder and 2 crews (5 people in total) as well as a senior paramedic who takes over the management of the resuscitation. Their only role is to keep time and inform the team when compressions need to stop for an assessment and when to give the next drug. The teams doing resus change around regularly (5 cycles of CPR usually, which is when a re-assessment is made) so they don't get exhausted.
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Absolutely. There are 2 teams of ambulance staff at games above league 1. One for the crowd and one for the players. Plus the clubs own medics. When very own Birch had a cardiac arrest a while back, he was in the best place other than being in an actual hospital. I dealt with a cardiac arrest on 2 occasions when I was pitch-side para. Both patients made it because our "call to arrival on scene" time was under a minute.
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Once CPR, effective or not, is started it must be continued by the emergency responders until it can be confirmed that life is extinct. Ineffective CPR will often fail to resuscitate as the heart won't be compressed sufficiently to fully empty the ventricles and not enough blood will be circulated to the brain. However trying CPR is always better than doing nothing. The outcome also depends on how long poor CPR has being going on before professional intervention happens. A minimum of 2 inches compression of the chest with the patient lying flat on a hard surface is what is most effective. Also, no mouth to mouth anymore as full compression of the chest creates a rebound effect where some oxygenated air is drawn into the lungs due to atmospheric pressure as the chest expands. Breathing in is an active process using muscles to expand the chest and air is drawn into the lungs. Breathing out is an inactive process as muscles relax and atmospheric pressure causes the chest to deflate "naturally".
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Bloke can't count to 7?
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How dare you insult my brother 😤
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Boro, shite City, shite Ref, shiter
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Gerry Taggart Dull as ditchwater 8
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I've been. They have a memorial section for emergency workers that have been killed during their service. Sadly ambulanceman Terry Wilkinson is not amongst them. He was shot dead at a siege in Wigston in 1975 whilst trying to push his ambulance into position to provide cover for the police officers being shot at. On this day in 1975, ambulance... - East Midlands Ambulance Service | Facebook
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We've tried one. The issue with them is that you have to swing at the fly whilst it's flying and they're so difficult to hit. The zapper can't hit the fly if it's on a flat surface. We've tried Venus flytraps and pitcher plants to kill flies but the plants died before any flies did. The most effective thing we've found is a commercial type flying insect killer such as those that cafe's use. Cheaper than a new TV.
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Flies on TV screens
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On discharge from a MHU, a patient can be subject to a Community Treatment Order, CTO, whereby they are monitored and have to be compliant with their meds and attend appointments with their psych team, otherwise they can be re-admitted under a section.
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This would be my route. 6 months old must still be under guarantee. Unless there was a back of lorry involved in the sale.
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Unfortunately, from what I've been told when I had a similar issue, once the pixels within the screen get damaged even without visible damage to the screen it's beyond repair. Pixels are very fragile and even a simple hit with a tea towel can cause them to fail. You may be able to fix a stuck pixel, which is a pixel that is always on and shows a single color, but fixing a dead pixel, which is always black, is very difficult and often not possible without replacing the screen.
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I had to replace a TV that had been hit with something thrown up whilst hoovering and the screen was all pixelated in one corner and the rest was black. I sought advice from one of the very few TV repairers I could find and he said if it's the screen, it can't be fixed because its a sealed unit. A software fault or pcb issue could be potentially repaired. Not a screen I'm only commenting from my personal experience.
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Sadly, yes.
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Neither was Axel Rudakubana. He (Axel) was a paranoid schizophrenic that had been assessed and discharged from a MH unit. There are paranoid schizophrenics out there without a diagnosis or a hospital admission. It's impossible to know until something like this happens. They look like "normal" people. Believe it or not.
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No way back I'm afraid. The screen can't be repaired or replaced because of compatibility issues. It's cheaper to buy a new TV than any attempt to repair it. Maybe your home insurance would cover it.
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Fooled by who? Mental illness is the more probable. Paranoid schizophrenia is the most likely reason and that condition means a mood or situation can make a sufferer turn on a dime.
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There's some intelligent posters on here. Then there's you.
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Leicester 0-2 Blackburn POST MATCH THREAD
Parafox replied to Muzzy_no7's topic in Leicester City Forum
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Where did I mention Pearson.? Get out the pub and get some sleep. You might make more sense in the morning. Although I doubt it.
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If you're more interested in polo ponies than the cash cow we provided KP and the potential to be at the top table after the FA cup win and to secure a place in the PL then he and KP can **** off. He's useless and not interested in us. **** of to Thailand and back to your airport franchises and let's get someone in who isn't a fake.
