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MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1991

SUCH FIBRILLATION DEFIBRILLATION IS THE PROCESS OF ABOLISHING

то CONTRACTION

THE ᎻᎬᎪᎡᎢ . RHYTHM TO RE-ESTABLISH NORMAL RHYTHM AND ACHIEVED BY PASSING A CONTROLLED ELECTRIC CURRENT THROUGH THE HEART.

EMERGENCY

THE INCIDENT OCCURRED AT ABOUT 1.30 PM LAST THURSDAY (MARCH 14) WHEN THE FIRE SERVICES COMMUNICATION CENTRE RESPONDED TO AN CALL IN SHA TIN, A NEARBY AMBULANCE FROM TIN SUM AMBULANCE ANOTHER ONE WITH THE DEFIBRILLATOR FROM SHA TIN AMBULANCE SENT TO THE SCENE.

SUM DEPOT

PATIENT

CPR

ΤΟ

WHEN THE FIRST AMBULANCE FROM TIN AMBULANCEMAN YUEN KAI-CHEUNG FOUND THE PULSELESS. THE OFFICERS IMMEDIATELY APPLIED PATIENT.

DEPOT AND DEPOT WERE

ARRIVED, SENIOR AND BREATHLESS

RESUSCITATE THE

WHO CREW,

ARRIVED

IMMEDIATELY

HIS DEFIBRILLATOR,

AND SENIOR AMBULANCEMAN WONG MUN-CHI LATER IN A. SECOND AMBULANCE WITH THE APPLIED THE MACHINE TO THE PATIENT AND PROVIDED THE

REGAINED PULSE, RESPIRATION PATIENT ARRIVAL AT THE PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL.

AND

HIM WITH CPR UNTIL HEART BEATS BEFORE

SERVICES

DEPARTMENT THE USE OF DEFIBRILLATOR

THE AMBULANCE COMMAND OF THE FIRE INTRODUCED A $1.5 MILLION PILOT SCHEME ON TWO MONTHS AGO.

AMBULANCES

AND

SIX

NUMBER INCREASED

OF

то

IN

AT PRESENT SIX AMBULANCE AID! MOTORCYCLES

THE EQUIPPED WERE

WITH DEFIBRILLATORS. DEFIBRILLATOR-MOUNTED AMBULANCE AID MOTORCYCLES WILL BE 13 WHEN A LOAD OF NEW MOTORCYCLES ARRIVE TO REPLACE THE AMBULANCES THE MIDDLE OF THIS YEAR.

THREE NOMINATIONS RECEIVED TODAY FOR UC/RC ELECTIONS

THREE NOMINATIONS FOR THE URBAN COUNCIL ELECTIONS IN RECEIVED TODAY (MONDAY).

MAY WERE

NONE WAS RECEIVED FOR THE REGIONAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS. NOMINATIONS THIS BRINGS TO 25 THE

TOTAL

NUMBER

OF

UC/RC ELECTIONS.

FOR

THE

ARE SO FAR, FOUR CONSTITUENCIES RECEIVED TWO NOMINATIONS. THEY

TONG KWUN

EAST AND YAU TSIM THE SHAU KEI WAN, KOWLOON CITY WEST, CONSTITUENCIES.

NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES WILL LAST UNTIL MARCH 25.

CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTESTING 27 SINGLE SEAT

CONSTITUENCIES

15 IN THE URBAN COUNCIL AREA AND 12 IN THE REGIONAL COUNCIL AREA.

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