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To: sweetliberty
Please ask, when CPR is given, and ribs are fractured, which ribs, specifically, are more likely to fracture as a result of CPR?
911 posted on 11/17/2003 3:52:46 PM PST by nicmarlo
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To: nicmarlo
"which ribs, specifically, are more likely to fracture as a result of CPR?"

I'm just guessing here, but I would think it logical that it would be ther uppermost ones, nearest the sternum. I will ask though.

912 posted on 11/17/2003 3:55:22 PM PST by sweetliberty ("Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.")
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