Polite Dissent

6 Responses to “ Priorities, Avengers ”

1. Jhiday
   June 16th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
   

   Wait, how do you perform CPR through the armor ?

   (And it can’t be that easy to remove, or some villain would have taken advantage of this by now…)

2. Scott
   June 16th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
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   That’s a good point. Now that you mention it, at this point, Tony still had to wear a chest plate at all times to keep his heart beating, so even if you could do CPR through the armor, would it even work? They should probably just plug him into the nearest electrical outlet.

   The Vision did manage to get Iron Man’s glove off to take his pulse — something you think villains would have tried (to take the glove off, not to take his pulse, that is

3. Seth Finkelstein
   June 16th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
   

   It’s probably a lot easier to remove the armor if it recognizes the person as a “friendly”, and hence doesn’t activate any booby-traps.

4. Feb
   June 17th, 2009 at 9:24 am
   

   Hmmm… could a period of hypoxia in his past led to Tony’s more recent flirtations with paranoia and Fascism?

5. Your Obedient Serpent
   June 20th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
   

   Was CPR commonly taught as a first aid technique in 1969?

   And I think Tony is WEARING an AED.

6. Your Obedient Serpent
   June 20th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
   

   Oh, here we go: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_resuscitation, “In the U.S., [CPR] was first promoted as a technique for the public to learn in the 1970s.”

   That jibes with my memories; I think I recall episodes of Emergency! where “the new resuscitation technique” was credited as making the critical difference in a patient’s survival.

   And since Donald Blake is the only MD on the Avengers….

   …I suddenly have a mental image of Thor bellowing, “Stand thee back, Avengers! I must perform CHEST COMPRESSIONS — with mine URU HAMMER!”

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