A comparison of the area of chest compression by the superimposed-thumb and the alongside-thumb techniques for infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1214-1217

  Lee, Seung Han ^a,b,c,d   Cho, Yong Chul ^a,b,c,d   Ryu, Seung ^a,b,c,d   Lee, Jin Woong ^a,b,c,d   Kim, Seung Whan ^a,b,c,d   Yoo, In Sool ^a,b,c,d   You, Yeon Ho ^a,b,c,d   Lee, Byung Kook ^b   Park, Jung Soo ^c   Park, Seung Soo ^d   Jung, Won Jun ^d  

^a Chungnam National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

^c Chungbuk National University Hospital   (South Korea)

^d Konyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Compression; Infant

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; INFANT; LIVER; LUNG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; STERNUM; SUPERIMPOSED THUMB TECHNIQUE; THORAX COMPRESSION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HEART MASSAGE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MANIKINS; REPUBLIC OF KOREA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX; THUMB; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80955178334     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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