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#1283

Rowley Cottingham trauma-list@trauma.org
Sat, 23 Feb 2002 12:29:52 -0000 

The people who persist in teaching out of date rubbish like AVPU are the
ones who need slamming, to conflate two different threads. The question on
fitting is all to do with cerebral perfusion. We will all fit if provoked
enough, and hypoxia is a great neural provocation. So the ventricle goes
into fibrillation, and there is no circulation to the brain. The person then
is at greater risk of fitting. Restore the circulation before there is
irreversible hypoxic brain damage and no harm ensues.

Rowley Cottingham
http://emergencyunit.com