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- noun Plural form of
compression .
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Examples
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Growing evidence has suggested that skipping the mouth-to-mouth breathing in favor of rapid, chest-only compressions is as effective and easier for non-medical personnel to administer.
Study Backs Simpler CPR for Patients Jennifer Corbett Dooren 2010
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The next time I hold compressions, the heart rate is above 100 and my job is done.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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I started thinking about the beat of "Stayin' Alive" and realized it had about 100 beats per minute -- the same rate the American Heart Association recommends for CPR chest compressions.
Alson S. Inaba, M.D.: How CPR to The Beat of 'Stayin' Alive' Can Help Save Lives (VIDEO) M.D. Alson S. Inaba 2011
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Chest-only compressions can be more effective than traditional CPR for cardiac-arrest patients, a study found.
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In terms of the blog post, this means that the number of * perceivable* (or differentially perceivable) pictures is much smaller than the combinatoric number, and compressions algorithms take advantage of that.
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“You can take over the chest compressions,” I am told.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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If he had died, as he came so close to doing over and over again, it would have been with his delicate birdlike ribs cracking as the compressions were pounded down.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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No one stood over him and did futile chest compressions upon a surface that was not even as wide as my own hand.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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There were the five years that came before her pulse was lost and chest compressions were started, and there was everything that would come after—the weeks when she would be on a ventilator and the day the trach would be inserted in the hollow above her collarbone.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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Her heart rate, which had been 140, has dropped to 60, the point at which chest compressions would normally be done.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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