Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 5 , Pages 558-560 , May 2009

Quality of cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) during paediatric resuscitation training: Time to stop the blind leading the blind

Received 19 August 2008 ,Revised 26 January 2009 ,Accepted 19 February 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the summary of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.017.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00109-9

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.02.017

Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 5 , Pages 558-560 , May 2009

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