Thoracic Spine Fracture in a Survivor of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest with Mechanical CPR
Document Type
Journal ArticlePublication Date
2016-12-01Keywords
Emergency Medicine
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This is a report of a thoracic vertebral fracture in a 79-year-old male survivor of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with chest compressions provided by a LUCAS 2 (Physio-Control Inc.; Lund Sweden) device. This is the first such report in the literature of a vertebral fracture being noted in a survivor of cardiac arrest where an automated compression device was used.Source
Prehosp Disaster Med. 2016 Dec;31(6):684-686. Epub 2016 Sep 19. Link to article on publisher's site
DOI
10.1017/S1049023X16000844Permanent Link to this Item
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/28446PubMed ID
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10.1017/S1049023X16000844