Asphyxiation

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    P4 Fire Safety and Choking

    In health and social care there are a lot of procedures and precautions put into place so that accidents don’t occur, but no matter how careful organisations are with these kind of incidents there is no way really of preventing them. In health and social care a lot of risk assessments are taken to make sure the place is safe but obviously there is still a few things that are unstable or accidents like this wouldn’t occur. The staff’s duty then is to work out what happened and how to minimise the

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    Gage Tennyson: The Insanity Defense

    Gage Tennyson Did you know that nine out of ten people plead insane and get away with the crime they commited? Many people use the insanity defense to get away with crimes so they don’t have to face the death penalty. You must commit a huge crime to get this specific penalty. Everyday people get out of crimes using this defense. Adacia Chambers is a good example. She drove her car into parade spectators in 2015. This was in Oklahoma State University’s homecoming parade. “She killed four people

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    The Air We Breathe

    and cause health respiratory problems. Carbon monoxide is an odourless, invisible gas that is released when engines burn fossil fuels. Carbon monoxide makes it hard for the body to get oxygen to the parts it needs to run properly, leading to asphyxiation at high enough

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    Smoke Inhalation Case Study

    caused by carbon monoxide and tiny particles absorbed into the lungs. The inhalation of heated air produces injury through several mechanisms, including thermal injury to the upper airway, irritation or chemical injury to the airways from soot, asphyxiation, and toxicity from carbon monoxide. In most cases firefighters can wear devices

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    Grave Casting: Improved Or Revealed?

    Do you think grave robbing was even a thought over two hundred years ago? Well, it very much was an issue. Medical students frequently stole buried bodies to perform medical procedures for practice. Grave robbing became legal in Virginia and other states for those students who needed the body to observe. Although grave robbing was considered fair-to-middling, there were also major outbreaks of people who dissaproved. In fact people got so inraging they caused the New York Doctors Mob in 1788. The

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    Ian Huntley Case Summary

    3.1:Huntleys Background. Ian Huntley was born in 1974 in England. Huntley was born into a normal working class family. Huntley when through a tremendous time at school as he was bullied, in 1990 he decided to leave school and declined to proceed with his studies and went straight to work. In later years he started to embark in relationships with younger girls when he was 18, in 1994 Huntley met an 18 year old women Claire Evans, they decided to get married but were separated a few days later as she

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    Mr. Verbomockle Case

    have had more equipment to save him. Also, the doctor will take longer to leave their practice, as they still have other patients to care for. All of this shows that she wanted to purposely delay medical attention so her husband would die from asphyxiation had he not already died from the initial attack, and had enough time to fake his “accident”. Most importantly, the evidence convicts Mrs. Verbermockle as the murderer of Mr. Verbomockle. When Mr Verbomockle fell onto the floor while brushing his

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    Chernobyl and the Aftermath

    Chernobyl and the Aftermath September 11, 2012 Chernobyl, near the border of Belarus and the Dnieper River, was a catastrophic nuclear accident that had occurred on April 26, 1986. This was a result of “reactor 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear power plant exploded, triggering a graphite fire that lasted for 10 days” (Yablokov et al., 2010). As a result of the explosion and fire, weathering patterns throughout Europe and the Northern Hemisphere changed due to the large quantities of

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    Edward Gein and His Murders

    Abstract Edward Gein was a man from Wisconsin that would exhume bodies, take parts he desired and make necklaces, lampshades, etc. Gein began to act out after his mother died when Gein was 39. He began to have hallucination and thought his mother was talking to him. He wanted to bring her back and that is why he exhumed the bodies. Gein had taken over the family business and one day his shop-keeper became missing. Officials thought of Gein immediately and went to his house. They found the

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    Animal Testing Research Paper

    (The Humane Society). Another way animal testing is cruel is that they take large doses of a chemical to test whether it is lethal or not (The Humane Society). At the end of the experiment, animals are killed by neck-breaking, decapitation, or asphyxiation, which is a deprivation of oxygen (The Humane Society). Testing animals like this is inhumane and

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