Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 26, Issue 3 , Pages 300-303 , September 1995

Decay in Quality of Closed-Chest Compressions Over Time

Presented at the ACEP Research Forum, San Francisco, February 1995.

Received 25 February 1995 ,Accepted 3 March 1995.

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 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina*; the Division of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital§, Boston, Massachusetts; and the Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, Kentucky.

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Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 26, Issue 3 , Pages 300-303 , September 1995