If you are or should be or ever might be in a situation where you might worry or should worry about the transmission of disease via a CPR manikin, this report is for you: “Guidelines for the prevention of disease transmission in the use of CPR manikin,” Committee to Advise The American Red Cross, National […]
Tag: safety
What They Recommend: Safety Helmets for Tornados
How can you protect yourself against a tornado? Two different medical groups suggest that you might try putting a safety helmet on your head, because that might be better than not putting a safety helmet on your head, maybe. Early this year came the treatise: “Safety Helmets: A Practical, Inexpensive Solution for Reducing the Risk […]
Dumb Ways to Die (“da dum da-da…”)
A public service music video from Metro: (HT investigator Deborah Blum)
Hands-On Experiment: The Safety of Pumpkin Carving Tools
A hands-on experiment, or rather, an experiment on hands,tried to determine the safety of pumpkin carving tools. Details are in the study: “The Safety of Pumpkin Carving Tools,” Alexander M. Marcus, Jason K. Green, and Frederick W. Werner, Preventive Medicine, vol. 38, 2004, pp. 799–803. (Thanks to investigator Kurt Verkest for bringing this to our […]