Topic: Marc Eckstein

It's Back to Basics to Save a Life

Drugs.com - 902 days ago
Medics and doctors are used to participating in a flurry of activity when trying to save a person who's had a cardiac arrest -- inserting IVs, placing a breathing tube, performing defibrillation to restart the heart.. "It's been shown to work ...

NTSB hunts details in deadly commuter train wreck

AP Features - 1193 days ago
Federal investigators on Sunday combed railroad tracks and crushed wreckage looking for evidence to explain the nation's deadliest rail disaster in 15 years and made plans to interview dispatchers.At the same time, a National Transportation Safety Board spokesman played down ...

Rail collision altered lives in and outside train

AP News - 1233 days ago
Hundreds of strangers touched by LA train crash that left survivors and dead in its wakeIt was shaping up as a perfect afternoon when Kipp Landis climbed aboard the doomed Metrolink 111 train at Union Station.Landis had managed to get away ...

Commuter train, freight collide in Los Angeles

AP Features - 1243 days ago
Los Angeles fire officials say at least 12 people have been killed in the collision of a Metrolink commuter train and a freight train in the San Fernando Valley.Dr. Marc Eckstein, the fire department's medical director, also said early Saturday ...