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Show New Theories For Reviving Drowned "There is no water in the lung" of a drowned person." This statement is made by L. E Palmer, who will conduct the Red Cross training- school in first aid and life saving at Salt Lake City from May 24th to 27th. Any competent swimmer who is interested in qualifying qual-ifying as a Red Cross life saving examiner is eligible to attend thi training school and learn the lastesl methods of Red Cross first aid and waten safety. Among the many things in which instruction will be. given is the prone pressure method of artificial respiration, considered the best means of resuscitating drowned persons. "People should get over the idea of rooling a person on a barrel to rescue him from drowning," states Palmer. "The water does not go tc the lungs. The same apparatus thai keeps the food from entering the lungs keeps -the water from doing so. One cannot breath and swallow at the same time. A drowned persor, is merely a suffocated one. His wind has been cut off by the enforc ed continuous swallowing of water but the water is in the stomach, not in the lungs, so. that anyeffort to re move water from the lungs, such a: by rolling on a barrel is a waste of time "The best method . to restore breathing is to press down on the patient's short ribs, then release them. The arms should be snapped down and back at a rate of about j twelve, to fifteen time a minute. This ! should be kept up until the patient begins breath normally. Every per-! per-! son should realize that his own two hands are the most effective instruments instru-ments there are for .restoring life to a suffocated person." |