Serious complications from active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 84-89

  Rabl, Walter ^a   Baubin, Michael ^b   Broinger, Gabriele ^a   Scheithauer, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b Klin f Anasthesie und I   (Austria)

Author keywords

Active compression decompression; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Complications; Sternal fracture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSION; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RIB FRACTURE; STERNUM FRACTURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; AUTOPSY; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RIB FRACTURES; STERNUM; THORACIC INJURIES;

EID: 0029833108     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01355522     Document Type: Article

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