Sudden Death and the Myth of CPR
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: July 23, 1999
Place of publication: Philadelphia, PA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781566397155
Subjects: Medical; Treatment; Diseases - Heart; Cardiac Arrythmia; First Aid (Internal Medicine); Consumer Health; Diet / Health / Fitness; Sudden death; Social aspects; Accident & emergency medicine; Cardiovascular medicine; Medical ethics; Sociology, Social Studies; Cardiac arrest; United States; Cardiology; CPR (First aid)
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Bern Shen; title: Introduction : What they didn't tell you in your CPR course.; title: The myth of CPR; title: How dignified is sudden death?; title: 1. Death awareness in the United States.; title: The emergence of death awareness; title: Hospice care; title: Right-to-die movement; title: The "good" death; title: Toward a dignified sudden death?; title: 2. The search for the best resuscitation technique.; title: The Royal Humane Society; title: The resuscitation techniques of the Royal Humane Society :; title: The vital principle; title: The Schafer technique; title: Resuscitation research in the United States :; title: Manual artificial ventilation methods; title: The obstructed airway; title: Mouth-to-mouth ventilation; title: Chest compressions; title: The origins of resuscitation beliefs; title: 3. CPR for all.; title: Professional versus lay CPR; title: Patient transportation; title: Consolidation of the emergency medical system; title: Survival rates :; title: The chain of survival; title: Some CPR is better than no CPR; title: What is survival?; title: Number-to-number inflation; title: The economic cost of saving lives; title: Universal lifesaving; title: 4. Lifesaving in action.; title: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; title: Paramedics; title: The emergency department; title: Ritual, medicalization, and community; title: 5. Deciding life and death.; title: Reaching decisions; title: Initial impression; title: Dead on arrival; title: The rush of the first minutes :; title: The resuscitation team; title: Retrieving clinical information; title: Circumstances of the cardiac arrest; title: The patient's social viability; title: Resuscitation trajectories :; title: Legal death trajectory; title: Elite death trajectory; title: Temporary stabilization trajectory; title: Stabilization trajectory; title: Social inequality of sudden death; title: 6. "There is a code and a code".; title: The routines of emergencies; title: Becoming a resuscitator; title: Major categories :; title: The successful resuscitative effort; title: The bad resuscitative effort; title: The tragic resuscitative effort; title: The non-category; title: Personal philosophy; title: Comfort with sudden death; title: 7. Saving life or saving death?; title: Resuscitation ethic; title: More effective CPR; title: Empowering relatives and friends; title: Family attendance; title: Final reflections; title: Appendix : Methodology