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A = allocation concealment
B = blinding
C = complete follow-up

Covers 90% of the major errors you will find in published RCTs.

Gord

Clive Leach wrote:
> Hi
> Nancy Caroline died 12/12/2002, she is buried in Boston
>                                                                        Clive
>
> 2009/10/6 <KMATTOX at aol.com>
>
>   
>> Another person to query regarding the origin of the ABCs is Nancy
>> Caroline.   Her latest edition of her classic book , "Resuscitation in  the
>> Streets"
>> is out.     I do believe she now lives in  Israel.     I do not remember
>> when her first edition came  out, but I do think it was long after 1957.
>> The
>> early Red Cross  and "First Aid" courses might also cite ABC.   As for
>> ABCDE, I do  think that Dr. McSwain's memory is correct and I was NOT at
>> that
>> meeting of the  ATLS committee of the ACS COT.   I do remember when it was
>> presented (ABCDE) to the big committee, I said to myself, "That seems to be
>> going a bit far to market the course, is that really  necessary?"    Not it
>> seems like it was a good idea to  me.
>>
>> k
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 10/6/2009 8:55:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
>> Krin135 at aol.com writes:
>>
>> interesting. An Amazon search turns up a European book "ABC  of
>> Resuscitation" in the 5th edition, as part of the 'ABC series' of  'basic'
>> medical
>> books (about the equivalent of the Little, Brown  Spiral Notebook series
>> here in
>> the states from what I can gather).
>> Using "Peter Safer" returns
>> _
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil
>> tered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer
>>
>> &field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-b
>>
>> in=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&f
>>
>> ield-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&A
>> dv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0_<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil%0Atered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer%0A&field-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-b%0Ain=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&f%0Aield-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&A%0Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0_>
>> (
>> http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil
>> tered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer&f
>>
>> ield-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin
>>
>> =&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&fie
>>
>> ld-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv
>> -Srch-Books-Submit.y=0<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_adv_b/?search-alias=stripbooks&unfil%0Atered=1&field-keywords=&field-author=Peter+Safer&f%0Aield-title=&field-isbn=&field-publisher=&node=&url=&field-feature_browse-bin%0A=&field-binding_browse-bin=&field-subject=&field-language=&field-dateop=&fie%0Ald-datemod=&field-dateyear=&sort=relevancerank&Adv-Srch-Books-Submit.x=0&Adv%0A-Srch-Books-Submit.y=0>)
>>   (_www.tinyurl.com/Peter-Safer_
>> (http://www.tinyurl.com/Peter-Safer)  )
>>
>> which is the third edition of
>> Cardiopulmonary   Cerebral Resuscitation: An Introduction to Resuscitation
>> Medicine : Basic  and  Advanced Cardiac and Trauma Life Support (Paperback)
>>
>>
>> is  this the same book in a later edition?
>>
>> ck
>>
>> In a message dated  10/6/2009 07:11:32 Central Standard Time,
>> pbjorn at emh.org
>> writes:
>>
>> Drs.  Safar and Elam are credited with the earliest  versions of
>> conventional CPR  in the 1950's.  Safar's obituary,  as well as many other
>> (perhaps  derivative?) web references, mention  his publication of a book
>> entitled  "The ABC of Resuscitation" in  1957.  This would be the  earliest
>> published use of the term that  I can find -- except that I can't  exactly
>> find it.  There may be  a copy or two preserved in some library  archive
>> in Pennsylvania; but  if it's included in any formal  bibliography
>> accessible via the  internet, I'm not seeing  it.
>>
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