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Article: CPR often not performed correctly, studies find.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- January 19, 2005
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Byline: Judith Graham
Jan. 19--CHICAGO -- Code blue. Someone's heart has stopped beating. A paramedic bends down and starts thumping on the patient's chest.
No one notices, but the medic isn't pushing down often or hard enough. Long pauses interrupt efforts to get blood flowing as the medic struggles to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
More often than not, the victim doesn't survive and the rescuer walks away feeling he did his best. But did he?
Though CPR looks good on TV shows like "ER," in reality this familiar emergency medical measure is often not well executed, according to two studies being published Wednesday in the Journal ...