Step sofa helps shorter rescuers do improved CPR

<p>NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Amid all a record used in hospitals to keep critically ill people alive, doctors are looking during either a low-tech step sofa can make a suggestive difference.
When a sanatorium studious goes into cardiac arrest, doctors and nurses perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, that includes chest compressions that need to be low adequate to pierce blood out of a heart and toward a rest of a body.
But when a rescuer is brief and a plant is on a hospital bed theres a problem: Its tough to get adequate precedence to press down on a chest, and a rescuer has to rest on upper-body strength.
It would seem judicious that giving rescuers a boost with a step stool could help.
But equipping each sanatorium pile-up transport with a step sofa is an expense, remarkable Dr. Dana P. Edelson of a University of Chicago Medical Center, a lead researcher on a new study.
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