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SUBMITTER: Baldi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5914707 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Baldi Enrico E Contri Enrico E Burkart Roman R Borrelli Paola P Ferraro Ottavia Eleonora OE Tonani Michela M Cutuli Amedeo A Bertaia Daniele D Iozzo Pasquale P Tinguely Caroline C Lopez Daniel D Boldarin Susi S Deiuri Claudio C Dénéréaz Sandrine S Dénéréaz Yves Y Terrapon Michael M Tami Christian C Cereda Cinzia C Somaschini Alberto A Cornara Stefano S Cortegiani Andrea A
BMJ open 20180419 4
<h4>Introduction</h4>Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of death in industrialised countries. Survival depends on prompt identification of cardiac arrest and on the quality and timing of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation. For laypeople, there has been a growing interest on hands-only CPR, meaning continuous chest compression without interruption to perform ventilations. It has been demonstrated that intentional interruptions in hands-only CPR can inc ...[more]