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Article: UNINTERRUPTED CHEST-COMPRESSIONS KEY TO SURVIVAL IN ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 29, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... proportion of time spent performing chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation ... evaluate the association between chest compressions by emergency medical service (EMS ... proportion of time spent performing chest compressions, but EMS providers typically perform ...

Article: Chest compressions: biomechanics and ...
Radiologic Technology;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... on the correct depth and rate of chest compressions with minimal "hands-off" periods ... literature that properly performed chest compressions manipulate the chest wall and can ... article discusses the biomechanics of chest compressions and the risks for rib cage fractures ...

Article: More Chest Compressions During CPR Improves ...
Consumer Health News (English);  September 16, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... to the amount of time spent doing chest compressions during efforts at what is formally ... percentage of CPR time spent doing chest compressions. Heart function returned to normal ... percent of cases when the time spent in chest compressions was 81 percent or more, the researchers ...

Article: Study points to improved way of treating cardiac arrest: ; ...
Charleston Gazette;  May 25, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... study found that performing just chest compressions until the ambulance arrives may save ... arrest patients who were given only chest compressions by bystanders survived to reach a ... percent of the 241 patients receiving chest compressions alone eventually made it home from ...

Article: NEW CPR METHOD SAVES ADDITIONAL LIVES TECHNIQUE USES HARD, FAST ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... technique stresses hard and fast chest compressions instead of mouth-to-mouth breathing ... paramedics or untrained bystanders. "Chest compressions are where it's at," said Lt ... performing traditional CPR - combining chest compressions with mouth-to-mouth breathing ...

Article: NO MORE MOUTH EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LEARNING A CPR TECHNIQUE THAT ...
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI);  August 30, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... workers are being trained to use only chest compressions, and not breaths, when helping ... learning to give breaths, along with chest compressions, as part of cardiopulmonary resuscitation ... But most people don't mind doing chest compressions. New research says chest ...

Article: Submersion, accidental hypothermia and cardiac arrest, mechanical ...
Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine;  February 20, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... resuscitation after using mechanical chest compressions in a patient with cardiac arrest ... local hospital with ongoing manual chest compressions but never had return of spontaneous ... transported to hospital with ongoing manual chest compressions and mask ventilation. Out-of ...