The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?

On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar implications for the role of the uninjured survivor. With basic training, the uninjured survivo...

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Autor principal: Crippen, David
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2001
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1058
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description On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar implications for the role of the uninjured survivor. With basic training, the uninjured survivors could save lives without tools or resuscitation equipment. This article makes the case for teaching life-supporting first aid to the public in the hope that one day, should another such incident occur, they would be able to preserve injured victims until formal rescue occurs.
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spelling pubmed-1373772003-02-27 The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid? Crippen, David Crit Care Review On 7 December 1988, a severe earthquake hit in Armenia, a former republic of the Soviet Union (USSR); on 11 September 2001, a manmade attack of similar impact hit New York City. These events share similar implications for the role of the uninjured survivor. With basic training, the uninjured survivors could save lives without tools or resuscitation equipment. This article makes the case for teaching life-supporting first aid to the public in the hope that one day, should another such incident occur, they would be able to preserve injured victims until formal rescue occurs. BioMed Central 2001 2001-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC137377/ /pubmed/11737915 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1058 Text en Copyright © 2001 BioMed Central Ltd
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The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
title The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
title_full The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
title_fullStr The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
title_full_unstemmed The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
title_short The World Trade Center Attack: Similarities to the 1988 earthquake in Armenia: time to teach the public life-supporting first aid?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137377/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11737915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/cc1058
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