Rescue 471, Saving Lives (page29-51)

Before You read: Constructing Questions (page24)

Take a look at these three sentences from this section. Before you start to read the chapter, write two information questions (W-H questions) for each sentence. 1. I feel the urge to snap at her, to call her a whiner. Question: Why do I feel the urge to snap at her? Question: When do I feel the urge? 2. She just starts crying and throws her arms around him, weeping huge grateful sobs Question: Why does she just start crying and throw her arms around him? Question: How does she just start crying? 3. "You're lucky this didn't cut your head off," I say, then hold my tongue. Question: Why do I say ? Question: When do I say ? 4. But now for the first time, I notice the gray in his mustache, the lines etched in his face. Question: How do I feel when I notice the gray in his mustache? Question: Why do I notice the gray in his mustache?

While You Read: Taking Notes on a Text (page25)

Take notes on the following patients that Canning discussed in Perfect, on pages29-36. Whats the cause?

Patient 77 year old man

What are this persons symptoms?

What happens? He has a sudden onset of shortness of breath. He is sitting up, struggling

Struggling to breathe. He has a history of His lung sounds like emphysema and a dishwashing hypertension but machine. His skin is none of CHF cool and sweaty, blue around the lips, pulse is 132

woman in her late 40s

She is never had pain live this before. Her forehead feels warm to him. She is alert and oriented but has no redial pulse, and I cannot hear a blood pressure. Her stomach is large and misshapen.

She is having a heart attack.

An attractive woman in her late 40s lies on her bed

70 year old woman

She has an aneurysm in her stomach

A naked man

A man barely responsive

He has some alcohol on his breath and is thrashing about Eyes looks helpless, looks like a dead man

He has a terribly weak heart

She was sitting in a chair when she collapsed and vomited. When they get there she is lying on the kitchen floor. She is an alert and oriented but has no radial pulse. Lying on the competed basement floor The mom is slumped blackguard in a chair at the kitchen table. He is ashen white

After You Read: Summarizing (page26)

Saving Lives is summarized here. Read it and discuss it with a partner. Do you think you should add anything to it? Next, write summaries for the other three chunks of this section. 1. Summary of No Luck Left 2. Summary of Bag and Drop 3. Summary of Baby Code