Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 10 , Pages 1187-1191 , October 2009

Expert clinical assessment of thorax stiffness of infants and children during chest compressions

  • Kristy B. Arbogast

      Affiliations

    • Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Blvd., Suite 1150, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. Tel.: +1 215 590 6075; fax: +1 215 590 5425.
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  • Akira Nishisaki

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
    • ,
  • Sriram Balasubramanian

      Affiliations

    • Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • Jon Nysaether

      Affiliations

    • Laerdal Medical, Stavanger, Norway
    • Formerly of affiliation ‘c’.
    • ,
  • Dana Niles

      Affiliations

    • Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
    • ,
  • Robert M. Sutton

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • Kathryn E. Roberts

      Affiliations

    • Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA
    • ,
  • Lauren Nadkarni

      Affiliations

    • Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • John Boulet

      Affiliations

    • Research and Education, Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • Matthew R. Maltese

      Affiliations

    • Center for Injury Research and Prevention, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • ,
  • Vinay M. Nadkarni

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Center for Simulation, Advanced Education and Innovation, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA

Received 8 April 2009 ,Revised 2 June 2009 ,Accepted 15 July 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.2009.07.005.

PII: S0300-9572(09)00374-8

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.07.005

Resuscitation
Volume 80, Issue 10 , Pages 1187-1191 , October 2009

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