The impact of various backboard configurations on compression stiffness in a manikin study of CPR

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2484-2487

  Cloete, Garth ^a   Dellimore, Kiran ^a   Scheffer, Cornie ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNIQUES; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CPR TRAINING; HOSPITAL SETTINGS; IMPACT COMPRESSION; LONGITUDINAL ORIENTATION; MEDICAL PRACTITIONER;

RESUSCITATION;

STIFFNESS;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; RESUSCITATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MANIKINS;

EID: 84862606679     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6090689     Document Type: Conference Paper

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