European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 a the stars and stripes thursday january 16 1992 new car method improves survival chances study says by the los Angeles times a new method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation May significantly increase the chances of surviving a cardiac arrest a study says. The technique known As interposed abdominal counter pulsation alternates compressions of the Chest with compressions of the Abdomen to maintain blood flow to the heart and brain. Standard car uses compressions of the Chest Only. Both methods also employ mechanically assisted breathing or Mouth to Mouth breathing. Researchers at St. Josephus Hospital and medical Center in Paterson n.j., found that 25 percent of the patients treated with the new technique left the Hospital alive compared with 7 percent of those treated with. The Standard technique. The study involving 135 resuscitation attempts in 103 hospitalized patients was reported wednesday in the journal of the american medical association. Or. Jeffrey b. Sack the principal author of the study said he was encouraged by the results but would not recommend a change in car procedures based on the results of one study. The new Jersey study is continuing and will be expanded he said. Cardiopulmonary arrest Means that the heart stops beating and breathing ceases. The most common reasons Are blocked heart arteries or damage to heart tissue from heart attacks or other problems. A Basic car As we practice it is pretty inefficient if this is True this would be the first significant Advance in car since it was introduced a or Michael Callaham business a said or. Michael Callaham director of the division of emergency Medicine at the University of California san Francisco. A the amount of blood flow through the heart is a couple percent of Normal during car. If this study is True this would be the first significant Advance in car since it was  the new technique is based on the theory that pressure on the abdominal Aorta the main artery carrying blood to the body can increase the blood flow resulting from compression of the Chest. There Are also possible complications of the technique such As the vomiting of stomach contents into the lungs and damage to the liver and spleen. Callaham also said the technique was too Complex for one person to perform. Trauma from tragedies claims victims among on Call rescuers by the new York times when an engine fell off american airlines flight 191 near of Hare International Airport in 1979, the resulting crash killed 273 people. Apart from the death toll there was a More Subtle emotional toll. Some of the greatest suffering was among the police officers who sifted through the wreckage to gather pieces of mutilated bodies a within a month or so almost every one of them had started looking for transfers to other jobs a said Christine Dunning a professor of government at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. At the time of the crash Dunning herself a former police officer was asked to meet with the officers who were requesting desk jobs and work outside of police work. That was one of the first Large scale attempts to Deal with a fact that had Long been ignored Rescue workers themselves can become hidden victims psychological casualties of traumatic events. The conventional Wisdom has been that people who routinely encounter horrible events have somehow Learned to endure the emotional turmoil that so often afflicts the victims they Rescue. But today such suffering is recognized As an occupational Hazard for police officers firefighters rescuers ambulance teams and other people whose jobs regularly put them in the midst of tragedies and traumas. As a result there Are now nationwide efforts to provide psychological help for them. Despite the training procedures devised for Rescue workers More than 70 percent have symptoms of Post traumatic stress in the course of their work according to a report last month in the British medical journal by or. Beverly Raphael a psychiatrist at the University of Queensland in Australia. Post traumatic stress disorder is a set of symptoms that result from an unusually disturbing event. Symptoms including nightmares flashbacks and nervousness can last from weeks to years. Or. Charles Figley a psychologist at Florida state University said information about emotional vulnerability was being included in training courses and psychological debriefing by specially trained Peers was becoming routine after traumatic events. Debriefings Are now common in the police departments of major cities at the secret service the Fri military units fire departments and for workers in emergency and protective services who handle child abuse cases. Dunning said the Rescue workers she has surveyed find events involving a child a death the most traumatic. A there was a fire in Milwaukee in which 12 children died a said Dunning. A seeing the death of that Many children is overpowering. The paramedics who had to bring the bodies out were psychologically overwhelmed. Some had nightmares and  for police officers Dunning surveyed the second most traumatic event was shooting or injuring someone and the next was being shot or injured themselves. One frequent reaction to such events is to withdraw emotionally from family and friends. Besides such emotional estrangement Quot Domestic violence is often a result of the anger a said Dunning a other common reactions include drinking and affairs. Post traumatic stress takes its toll on families  one of the Best antidotes is psychological preparation. A if we educate people to demystify the Post traumatic reactions a Alert people to the fact that crying nightmares and flashbacks fears Are Normal then the stigma is gone and they can talk about it when they need to a Dunning said. A a it a no longer an  teen s arms reattached after Accident Hurdsfield . A a teen agers arms were torn off in a farm Accident but he used a Pencil clenched in his Teeth to phone for help and surgeons were Able to reattach the limbs relatives said. John Thompson underwent surgery at a Minneapolis Hospital saturday. His condition was upgraded from critical to serious but stable a nursing supervisor said tuesday. A the most the doctors Are hoping for is that hell get the use of his arms. They done to think his hands will be of use Quot said Kim blotter Thompsons sister. Thompson 18, a senior at Bowdon High school was Home alone grinding feed for pigs saturday when he got caught in a tractors Power Takeoff unit. It ripped his right Arm off at the shoulder and his left Arm off near the Elbow. Thompson staggered about 400 Yards to his Home. A John tried to get in one door and  a said Lynn Thompson an Uncle. A so he went into the garage and opened the door to the House with his  once inside the teen kicked in the door to the Den where he picked up a Pencil with his Teeth and used it to dial a cousins number. Then he waited for help in the bathroom so he  bleed on the carpets the family said. A the ambulance Driver found the arms and packed them up a the Uncle said. Judge adds More nations to ban of tuna imports from wire reports san Francisco a a Federal judge has prohibited the United states from importing Yel Bowfin tuna from nations that buy the fish from three countries on a . Embargo list aimed at protecting dolphins. Yellow Fin tuna is used in canned a chunk Light  the ruling dated Friday was by chief . District judge Thelton Henderson who imposed the narrower ban in August 1990 on tuna from nations whose fleets violate standards set by . Law for Dolphin kills. Currently those Are Mexico Venezuela and the Pacific Island of Vanuatu. Henderson a new ruling could affect imports from 30 countries directly or indirectly responsible for nearly All yellow Fin tuna sent to the United states said Roddy Moscoso spokesman for the National Marine fisheries service. Tobacco ads costlier Washington a tobacco companies spent an average of $1.37 on each Carton of cigarettes just to advertise or promote the product the Federal Trade commission said tuesday. This was up from an average of 58 cents per Carton in 1980, the Etc said in its annual report to Congress. The cigarette Industry in 1989, the latest year for which the figures Are compiled spent a total of $3.6 billion on advertising and promotion up 10 percent from the year before the Etc said. Domestic cigarette sales declined in 1989 by 6.3 percent the single biggest drop since 1963. Raids Are really robbery Rochester . Armed thieves dressed like police have shot one Man and burglarized three Homes after storming them As if they were making raids. The robbers arrived in a Van with the word a a police on the Side wore sweatshirts and other clothes that also identified them As police and donned ski and stocking masks authorities said. The three burglaries occurred this year. In the last one Jose Pabon 35, was shot in the thigh sunday when he tried to close his door on the robbers. He was hospitalized in satisfactory condition tuesday. Another tour crash Las vegas a a plane returning from a grand Canyon tour flight crashed in Arizona while its Pilot was attempting an emergency Landing. Two Hong Kong tourists aboard were killed authorities said tuesday. Mondays crash occurred after the Pilot reported engine problems. He and two Otner passengers also from Hong Kong were injured. The plane belonged to air vegas inc. Of Henderson Nev. Mondays crash was the second in two months involving grand Canyon Scenic flights. On dec. 10, five people were killed when their Las vegas airlines plane slammed into a Mountain in Arizona during bad weather. Calico the culprit Boynton Beach. Fla. It was one howler of a whodunit and even is. Marple was stumped. Police rushed to Barbara Marple a apartment to find out Why 911 was being repeatedly dialled without anyone speaking on the other end. Turned out it was a series of catcalls. The 23-year-old supermarket employee denied making the Calls but the police insisted on checking inside her apartment. In a bedroom Marple and the police found her Calico cat named Kitten with one Paw on the cordless phone. A cat dialled 911 using Auto redial Quot reads the police log entry. Case closed. Kitten did t simply press a Speed dial Button. She punched 9-1-1 in sequence the first time. Then she hit the redial Button