Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 10 , Pages 1181-1186 , October 2009

Mechanical loading of the low back during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

  • Jui-Yi Tsou

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
    • Department of Physical Therapy, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Hsien Chi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Rebekah Min-Fang Hsu

      Affiliations

    • School of Environmental and Life Sciences, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hui-Fen Wu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physical Therapy, Fooyin University, Kaohsiung County, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Fong-Chin Su

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan 701, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886 6 2760665; fax: +886 6 2343270.

Received 22 February 2009 ,Revised 26 May 2009 ,Accepted 18 June 2009.

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☆ A Spanish translated version of the abstract of this article appears as Appendix in the final online version at doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.06.025.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00359-1

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.06.025

Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 10 , Pages 1181-1186 , October 2009

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