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The authors report the first case of an infant who had asystole and ventricular fibrillation needing resuscitation. There have been sporadic reports spinal cord injury after chest compressions, including a case by Azuma et al. in 1986 and the case presented, by Samson et al. in 2012.
Abstracted from Samson et al. (2012).
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Eltorai, I.M. (2016). Spinal Cord Injury After Chest Compressions. In: Rare Diseases and Syndromes of the Spinal Cord. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45147-3_42
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