Basic life support providers' assessment of centre of the chest and inter-nipple line for hand position and their underlying anatomical structures

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 190-194

  Yeung, Joyce ^a,b   Butler, Thomas ^c   Digby, James W ^c   Hughes, John ^c   Higgie, David ^c   Minshall, Mark ^c   Miller, Ben ^b   Gao, Fang ^a,b   Perkins, Gavin D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Basic life support; BLS; Chest compression; CT scan; Hand position

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; AORTA ARCH; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NIPPLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STERNUM; TECHNIQUE; THORAX;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIPPLES; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; THORAX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78751576097     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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