Topic: Emergency Situations
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Old 22-Dec-2004, 07:43 AM in reply to Darkling's post starting "That would be the Heimlich maneuver. ..."
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Default re: Emergency Situations
At the begining of November, I had a seizure when I was in one of the Otago University labs.

There were other people in the room, but as expected, none of them did anything (not that they could have though) except calling the lab supervisor and an ambulance. thats all that was needed for my situation. An ambo...

The St John paramedics got me out of the seizure (did a diabetes test and failed it) then took me to the Dunedin Hospital, where I was waiting for about an hour before seeing a doctor, then was waiting about 5 more hours for blood tests to come back again.

Now I have a neurologists appointment in February.

And I am on dilantin.

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