LIFE-SAVING

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21717, 26 February 1936, Page 9

LIFE-SAVING

—7 ♦ HOLGER NIELSEN METHOD OF resuscitation small POSSIBILITY of , ADOPTION There is small possibility of the Holger Nielsen method of resuscitation in cases of apparent drowning ousting the present Schafer method used by the Royal Life-Saving Society. A tetter that has been received by the New Zealand Council of the society from the vice-president of the society states that the parent body has been recommended not tq adopt the new method. The letter was read at the quarterly meeting last night of the Canterbury Centre of the society. It stated that a sub-committee of four had been set up to consider the method, and it had decided to recommend the central executive rot to accept the method for tuition. In the new method the chief attention was paid to inspiration, but the intake of fresh air was chiefly led into the upper air passages from which diffusion was made difficult by the sticky froth which blocked the finer branches. The following shoulder pressure expelled this extra air just taken in, leaving the air sacs little or no better Off. Thus there was slight chance of the vitiated air being quickly purified. or the tubes cleared. The stronger inspiration with the weaker expiration would tend to slow up drainage of the bronchial tubes. In the Schafer method, the emphasis W a s bn pressure causing expiration, so that the contents of the lungs were forced out, and later air flowed in. The simplicity of the Schafer method was also another important point in its favour, for skilled operators; were needed in the Danish method. INCREASE IN NUMBER OF AWARDS CHANCE OF EQUALLING PEAK YEAR With only half of its year gone, the Canterbury Centre of the Royal LifeSaving Society has passed almost as many candidates for life-saVlng awards as it did during the whole of last year, and there are very good chances that the total U . year will equal that of the peak year in 1929. This statement was made at a meeting last night of the centre by the secretary, Mr J. Breward. The following additional awards were approved: — Intermediate Certificate and Bronze Medalion —Christchurch Technical College: Leslie E. Cattermole, Michael Gibson. John W. Phillips, Roy G, Kennard, William K. Mintrom (examined by Mr C. F. Barnett). Raymond C. Woqdham. Garrick F. Gregg, Ronald Kennedy (examined by Mrs H. J. Bailey); Canterbury Surf Association: Mites P. Butterick, Geoffrey S, Cooper, John A. Young (examined by Mr R. C. Gibbons). Bar to Bronze Medallion—Christchurch Technical College; John A. Townsend (examined by Mrs H. J. Bailey). Second-class Instructor’s Certificate —Christchurch Technical College; Harold J. Mills (examined by Mr C. F. Barnett). First-class Instructor’s Certificate — Christchurch Technical College: Ivan E, Mitchell (examined by Mrs H. J. Bailey). It was decided to hold the Monica Thacker Shield competition on March 20, and the *Sir John Hall Memorial Shield competition on March 30. Both will be held at the Tepid Baths, commencing at 7 p.m.