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The training kit for six students includes a washable, brown plastic mannequin filled with about two quarts of water, which gives it the weight and floppiness of a non-breathing newborn.
International Helping Babies Breathe course teaches newborn resuscitation 2010
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"No, I like carrying a non-breathing baby around."
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Your scenario does nothing but elevate a non-breathing group of cells to the status of a hominid while diminishing the status of the living, air breathing being.
Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008
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AMERICAN ZOMBIE has drawn some critical fire for the grimly humorous turn of events in its last act, which effectively vindicate the humans' fear of the non-breathing.
We dead belong Arbogast 2008
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This contrast is grimly encapsulated by one scene from the end of that long techno nightmare: A raver dances happily a couple of metres away from paramedics performing CPR on one of the non-breathing.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Russell Smith 2011
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This contrast is grimly encapsulated by one scene from the end of that long techno nightmare: A raver dances happily a couple of metres away from paramedics performing CPR on one of the non-breathing.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed Russell Smith 2011
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A non-breathing, unconscious child may have permanent brain damage if he doesn't not receive oxygen within four minutes, and he could die if he does not receive oxygen within the first four to six minutes.
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Carrying the non-breathing woman promptly from the burning room, Firefighter / Paramedics began immediate care, which continued through her transport to California Hospital Medical Center in grave condition.
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With profound determination, first arriving Firefighters fought their way tenaciously past the men into the burning residence and rescued the woman, who was found pulseless and non-breathing on a bedroom floor.
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Upon entering the smoke charged residence on their hands and knees with flames rolling over their heads, Firefighters systematically searched the premises to find and rescue a pair of burned unconscious senior adults and a burned non-breathing 10 year-old girl from a bedroom at the rear of the home.
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