HEART MASSAGED
'■ DESPERATE ATTBMPT TO RESTORE GIRL'S . ; ,■ LIFE. :•'. :; H'OPELESS TASK. .' " ' ' :V.'; . •, SY&NEY; .Jari: 10/ - ' Oegperate Aieksurea were takeri by :dbcBrs atP Baimam Mospital yesterdayr inari'attempt to restore the life Bf an eight-year-ol'd girl, who died .'|inder an anaesthetic. .* ©bctbia Hurriedly 'dpened tbe aBdomen' an'd getitly . masgaged the heart 'yvitn their hands— a ydry rare opeyatiori. • ,,The girl, - Audrey Russel, of Trouton' Street> Ealrfiain, being ope--rat^d ori for paralysis of the muscles of the right shoulder when she be:p,ajhe: su§.ofeated; and stopped breath;ihg, ,r;V:; : . ' ;■ . Takirig turns alternately, the docitora wqrked carefully Toi- riearly an hhur, but their work was unsuccess"itil". The girl was dead: In general cases, when a "patient" appears dead, and the operation be- ' ing at fhe" tim'e perforihed is near the iabdottieh, ,no addition incision is necessary. * , " . • 1 Yery rareiy has this speciai method been ajiplied, btit ih many fcasei pa;fiehts apparehtly dead Kave been re.viyed. , ... '
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 123, 16 January 1932, Page 2
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148HEART MASSAGED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 123, 16 January 1932, Page 2
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