shit, man... thats balls! :/

um... looks like its another 2:25min of life ill never see again... :(

ROFL!!!
My day is now complete

'Canadian Health Care may have killed British actress Natasha Richardson?'

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CANADACARE MAY HAVE KILLED NATASHA

Last updated: 3:51 am
March 26, 2009
Posted: 2:47 am
March 26, 2009

COULD actress Natasha Richardson's tragic death have been prevented if her skiing accident had occurred in America rather than Canada?

Canadian health care de-emphasizes widespread dissemination of technology like CT scanners and quick access to specialists like neurosurgeons. While all the facts of Richardson's medical care haven't been released, enough is known to pose questions with profound implications.

Richardson died of an epidural hematoma -- a bleeding artery between the skull and brain that compresses and ultimately causes fatal brain damage via pressure buildup. With prompt diagnosis by CT scan, and surgery to drain the blood, most patients survive.

Could Richardson have received this care? Where it happened in Canada, no. In many US resorts, yes.

Between noon and 1 p.m., Richardson sustained what appeared to be a trivial head injury while skiing at Mt. Tremblant in Quebec. Within minutes, she was offered medical assistance but declined to be seen by paramedics.

But this delay is common in the early stages of epidural hematoma when patients have few symptoms -- and there is reason to believe her case wasn't beyond hope at that point.

About three hours after the accident, the actress was taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, in Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, 25 miles from the resort. Hospital spokesman Alain Paquette said she was conscious upon reaching the hospital about 4 p.m.

The initial paramedic assessment, travel time to the hospital and time she spent there was nearly two hours -- the crucial interval in this case. Survival rates for patients with epidural hematomas, conscious on arrival to a hospital, are good.

Richardson's evaluation required an immediate CT scan for diagnosis -- followed by either a complete removal of accumulated blood by a neurosurgeon or a procedure by a trauma surgeon or emergency physician to relieve the pressure and allow her to be transported.

But Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts is a town of 9,000 people. Its hospital doesn't have specialized neurology or trauma services. It hasn't been reported whether the hospital has a CT scanner, but CT scanners are less common in Canada.

Compounding the problem, Quebec has no helicopter services to trauma centers in Montreal. Richardson was transferred by ambulance to Hospital du Sacre-Coeur, a trauma center 50 miles away in Montreal -- a further delay of over an hour.

Because she didn't arrive at a facility capable of treatment (with the diagnosis perhaps still unknown) until six hours after the injury, in all likelihood by that time the pressure buildup was fatal. The Montreal hospital could not have saved her life.

Her initial refusal of medical care accounted for only part of the delay. She was still conscious when seen at a hospital and her death might have been prevented if the hospital either had the resources to diagnose and institute temporizing therapy, or air transport had taken her quickly to Montreal.

What would have happened at a US ski resort? It obviously depends on the location and facts, but according to a colleague who has worked at two major Colorado ski resorts, the same distance from Denver as Mt. Tremblant is from Montreal, things would likely have proceeded differently.

Assuming Richardson initially declined medical care here as well, once she did present to caregivers that she was suffering from a possible head trauma, she would've been immediately transported by air, weather permitting, and arrived in Denver in less than an hour.

If this weren't possible, in both resorts she would've been seen within 15 minutes at a local facility with CT scanning and someone who could perform temporary drainage until transfer to a neurosurgeon was possible.

If she were conscious at 4 p.m., she'd most likely have been diagnosed and treated about that time, receiving care unavailable in the local Canadian hospital. She might've still died or suffered brain damage but her chances of surviving would have been much greater in the United States.

American medicine is often criticized for being too specialty-oriented, with hospitals "duplicating" too many services like CT scanners. This argument has merit, but those criticisms ignore cases where it is better to have resources and not need them than to need resources and not have them.

Cory Franklin is a physician who lives outside of Chicago. 2009 Chicago Tribune; distributed by Tribune Media Services.

Those Rednecks can blame Canada all they want, but eventhough our Health system is only in 30th position in the World Health Org's Global Ranking... their 37th position is far more eloquent.

bahahaha!! Fuck you, Alex!! lol
i was having a sip of my drink while wathcing that vid...
laughed too hard theres alcomohol all over mah desk now! :'(

frikken awesome! :D

ms-paint is just amazing like that.

my thought exactly!

???

dit Anto, tu fais de la fievre ou koi lalaa? LOL

oh im gonna love this thread...

bahahaha!

dont worry, bro... i am too! :S

look! a SQUIRREL!!!

-_-'

non non non, Pierrot... excuse moi, joublie qui faut a chaque fois s'adapter a ton 12.5 de quotien quand on tadresse la parole. mon erreur...

repete apres moi: LA-MEN-TA-BLE.

a ne pas confondre avec lamentation, la chose que tu te fais un devoir de faire endurer a tout le board.

um... toujours aussi lamentable (la-men-ta-ble), mais ya du progrès. Lâche pas!

no.

um... well maybe you should get out of the province once in a while, cuz last time i checked, when i went to Cuba & Mexico and they had poutine in their menus...

'Poutine' spelled the same way in three languages, no less.

keep quiet, kiddo.
the grown-ups are having a conversation here...







that being said...



1/4 of an inch is the Industry standard for the bleed, so 1/8 of an inch border.
when you open a new canvas (say for a 4"x6" piece), always open it as 4.25x6.25.

i find that setting up guidelines on PS as reminders greatly helps you to keep it in mind as you make your design

agreed... Rank1 is like the Scott Brown of Trance, but hey: hes good. :P

just like poutine!

not if used wisely...

i know im getting one in my next apt.

bave... BAVEUH!!! pas dla foam, sti! lol

Rank 1, hands down!

scott twoel, svp
pour la coulee de bave que jai sul bord dla gueule...

on the bright side: the vid wasnt really as bad as i initially expected, tho...

delivery is gross.
making babies, however is the tits! heheh

indeed... i ilke how the design has evolved thru-out the pages =)

Anyone? :P

wow.

yep...
the wasabi ice cream is one very powerful weapon in the arsenal... and deserves a 9/10 on the Evilness scale :P

the sneaky way. not only is it by far, one of the smartest & effective way to get get back at ppl that pissed you off, but also one of the most satisfying type of revenge of all! Muhahahah!! >:P

some ppl, (some in this very thread, even) would tell you about that warm and fuzzy feeling of triumph lol! wathchin your 'helpless victim' humiliated & enjoying every second of it... ^_^


like this time back in college...

for an entire year, i shared a 3 1/2 style unit in the college dorm with a complete stranger. since it was my fist time living away from home, back then & my parents place was hundreds of kms away didnt know any body yet, etc needless to say that i felt quite anxious and insecure about being truely on my own...

Anyway, long story short, in took a few seconds to that son of a bitch, to notice it and use that to his own benefit. in the entire year hed NEVER clean up behind himself, he kept eating my food, leave leftovers rottening on the counter for days, several times he pissed all over the toilet, ETC.... -_-'

so... at the end of the year when it was time to pack up, clean and clear out the place, i had decided that his was payback-time... he was away for the weekend so, leaving me with the clean once more. it took me the whole daybut the place was spotless.

Tool of trade: no other than his toothbrush with trace of evidence carefully cleaned up.


^_^

um... Bowser, eh? Neat!

glad to see hes still active,
i havent heard of this guy in ages! a quite talented fella, ill say.

im definately gonna do mah best and check this out! =)


GO TEAM OTTAWA!
(hehehe... *runs'n hide*)

hehehe you know it! lol

180bpm should definately become the new standard... whos with me?!

Your wish is my command... ;P

bahaha! :P

mmmm... sugary cholesterol death!

haha! Ana is Le Gangsta! ;)

I like turtles.

wow.

man... it never ceases to amaze me to see so many ppl going to those sketchfests, leave their belongings unattended and be so scandalized when they find out that some one has taken off with their stuff they had left behind... -_-'

anyway... hopefully you get your shoes back, Ashley
but i wouldnt hold my breath on it :/