Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 579-584 , May 2010

Rescuer fatigue and cardiopulmonary resuscitation positions: A randomized controlled crossover trial

  • Ning-Ping Foo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Liouying, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jer-Hao Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hung-Jung Lin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chi-Mei Medical Center, Tainan, Taiwan
    • ,
  • How-Ran Guo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Sustainable Environment Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, 138 Sheng-Li Road, Tainan 70428, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 6 2353535x5802; fax: +886 6 2752484.

Received 18 August 2009 ,Revised 2 February 2010 ,Accepted 5 February 2010.

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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.2010.02.006.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00087-0

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.02.006

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 5 , Pages 579-584 , May 2010

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