Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1562-1565 , November 2010

The efficacy of straddling external chest compression on a moving stretcher

  • Zhan Lei
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  • He Qing

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Emergency Department, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, No. 37, Guo Xue Xiang, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China. Tel.: +86 158 8248 6334.
  • ,
  • Zhou Yaxiong

Received 19 July 2009 ,Revised 22 May 2010 ,Accepted 25 May 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.2010.05.017.

PII: S0300-9572(10)00312-6

doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.05.017

Resuscitation
Volume 81, Issue 11 , Pages 1562-1565 , November 2010