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Cough CPR

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Cough CPR
A manoeuvre to be used by a person on himself after developing ventricular fibrillation, to maintain consciousness for up to 90 seconds and an arterial pulse by vigourous coughing in rapid sequence with a physiologic staccato rhythm


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Teaching patients who are at increased risk for sudden cardiac death to recognize the prodromal symptoms and employ cough CPR is simple and inexpensive.
 
 
 
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