Kelley Armstrong Quotes

If you're choking in a restaurant you can just say the magic words, 'Heimlich maneuver,' and all will be well. Trouble is, it's difficult to say 'Heimlich maneuver' when you're choking to death.

A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.

If you ever get injured or have an asthma attack, the last words you get out are, 'Sammy Davis suite, please.' That's, like, three rooms on the eighth floor of Cedars-Sinai.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Beyond its entertainment values, 'Baywatch' has enriched and in many cases helped save lives.

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.

As far as skills go, I hope that I could administer CPR now for real. My problem with it, actually, is I'm not sure I know when to administer CPR.

Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected.

Hands on your breast can keep your heart beating.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

Is he all right?" Jade asked Sterns. He Swooned" I know he swooned," Jade replied.

Part of my life is saving life.

We brought Safeco back from the brink of failure.

I'm an ER doctor, period. I look at a problem with a certain lens: very action-oriented, very results-oriented.

The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

I've been through a lot of different situations, and the key thing I've learned is: Don't panic. That's the advice I give people. If anaphylaxis occurs, just do the necessary things. If it's your first time, call and seek emergency assistance and find out exactly what's happening. Get help.

There are times when fixing things quickly is the only option: when you have to channel MacGyver, reach for the duct tape, and cobble together whatever solution works right now. If someone is choking on a morsel of food, you don't sit back, stroke your chin and take the Aristotelian long view. You quickly administer the Heimlich maneuvre.

I love what I do, both aspects - fighting and being a firefighter and paramedic.

Now the ambulance is always ready; the paramedics are always ready. People in the crowd can get help without risk. If you look at the Fabrice Muamba case, this is what helped save his life - the paramedics are there.

I know how to use a tourniquet, a bandage, I know how to stitch, how to do CPR and a lot of technical bits too.

I did die once, for seven seconds, after a burst appendix.

The fact that you were essentially dead does not register until you begin to come alive.

Dear Friend: I have nearly died three times since morning.

Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy complications, pneumonia, malaria and all the everyday health emergencies with nowhere to go.

They've taken the foot off Johnny Grubb. Uh, they've taken the shoe off Johnny Grubb.