Re: [Paddlewise] Rescues & CPR

From: William Jennings <will_at_bigwoodenradio.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 15:05:34 -0600
On Jan 8, 2009, at 1:39 PM, Chuck Holst wrote:

> Today's Star Tribune has a story about a grandmother who fell in her
> daughter's driveway in subfreezing temperatures and was unable to  
> get up by
> herself because of arthritis.


My favorite line from the story, other than the recovered woman  
stating she "was a tough, old Norwegian",
was a quote from one of the Attending Physicians:

"We have a saying in the ER. You're not dead until you're warm AND  
dead."

-Will
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