Can lightweight rescuers adequately perform CPR according to 2010 resuscitation guideline requirements?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 159-160

  Krikscionaitiene, Asta ^a   Stasaitis, Kestutis ^a   Dambrauskiene, Milda ^a   Dambrauskas, Zilvinas ^a   Vaitkaitiene, Egle ^a   Dobozinskas, Paulius ^a   Vaitkaitis, Dinas ^a  

^a LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BODY FAT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; EDUCATION PROGRAM; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHARMACY STUDENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; THORAX COMPRESSION;

BODY WEIGHT; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84874664612     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2011-200634     Document Type: Article

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