HEROIC EFFORTS FAIL TO SAVE TWINS.Byline: Ed Pope Knight-Ridder Tribune News Wire Highway 85 claimed two more lives Saturday when the premature twins of a woman killed in a head-on collision A head-on collision is one where the front ends of two ships, trains, planes or vehicles hit each other, as opposed to a side-collision or rear-end collision. Rail transport With rail, a head-on collision often implies a collision on a single line railway. died despite the extraordinary efforts of two paramedics. The paramedics had struggled quickly and desperately Thursday night to keep the mother alive - and when it was clear she would not survive, they turned their efforts to keeping her body functioning long enough to give the twins a chance. But their actions - and those of two neonatal resuscitation resuscitation /re·sus·ci·ta·tion/ (-sus?i-ta´shun) restoration to life of one apparently dead. cardiopulmonary resuscitation teams and an emergency trauma team A Trauma team is a group of healthcare workers who attend to seriously ill or injured casualties who arrive at a hospital emergency department. The team is composed of a number of specific roles, with a typical team consisting of:
The Santa Clara Valley is a valley just south of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. Medical Center - were to no avail. The twins, Nina and Robert Wyckoff, died at noon Saturday, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the Coroner's Office. Their mother, Alma Ribbs Wyckoff, 36, of Los Gatos, died shortly after 10 p.m. Thursday at VMC See VESA Media Channel. . She and her husband, Richard Wyckoff, who was driving, were going home from a Lamaze class when a white Toyota pickup crossed the median and slammed into their black Mercedes-Benz, crushing the front passenger side where the seven months pregnant woman sat. The driver of the pickup, Donald Garrett, 43, of Menlo Park, was killed instantly. Wyckoff was not seriously hurt. Paramedics Tim Kaye and Brian Beach had answered the call for an ambulance on Highway 85 near Saratoga Avenue. The woman was still alive, but her heartbeat was faint. She was still in her seat, belted. The immediate concern was improving Ribbs' breathing. An off-duty nurse, caught in the traffic jam nearby, ran up to help. As they put Ribbs into the ambulance, her heart stopped. A firefighter applied cardiac massage cardiac massage n. A resuscitative procedure that employs the rhythmic compression of the chest and heart in an effort to restore and maintain the circulation after cardiac arrest or ventricular fibrillation. Also called heart massage. , and Kaye inserted IVs with medication to keep blood in Ribbs' vital organs, brain and babies. The babies' deaths brought to six the number killed on the freeway, which was built without a median barrier because the median is so wide. But state officials have indicated they will add a barrier to the most-dangerous two-mile stretch of the road from Saratoga Avenue to De Anza Boulevard. |
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