Beach swimmers are being warned to take care after a few people attended Bowen hospital today with marine stings. “Three children have been seen since yesterday with ‘large stinger welts’ on their skin, luckily these were mild cases. However, it is a timely warning to take precautions when swimming in northern waters”, Senior Medical Officer of Bowen Hospital, Dr Michael Reinke said. He urged people to take safety measures and be aware of what to do if stung by a jellyfish. “Protective clothing such as wetsuit will significantly reduce your risk of being stung. Try to swim in patrolled areas and know first aid”. Dr Reinke said it could be difficult to work out which species of jellyfish had
A recent study showing that fewer women receive CPR than men in public points to needed changes in education and training, experts said. The study, from the Center for Resuscitation Science at Penn Medicine, found that 39 percent of women receive CPR from bystanders in public compared to 45 percent of men. The researchers looked at more than 19,000 cardiac events using data from a network of regional clinical centers in the United States and Canada. What they found was that, while more men received CPR from bystanders in public, there was little difference in private settings. Thirty-five percent of women and 36 percent of men received CPR at home, according to a Penn Medicine news release.
McDonald's worker saves baby's life in medical emergency 7News Brisbane / November 20th, 2017 The swift actions of a teenage fast food worker have saved the day in a drive-thru medical emergency in Brisbane. Lily Kay, a student paramedic, took charge when a baby boy began having a seizure at the Underwood branch of McDonald's. Now the parents of Benji Burgess are hailing the heroic actions of the 19-year-old, claiming she saved their boy's life One-year-old Benji Burgess was saved by a McDonald's Drive-Thru worker. "She's my hero, she saved him - there's no two ways about it for me," mum Jodi said. Jodi and her husband were going through a McDonald's drive-thru when Benji began making a stra
She immediately ordered someone to call 9-1-1 (000 in Australia) and asked someone else to go get the campus nurse. “I remember thinking: it
