Chest Compression

Chest compression may refer to:

  • The prevention of the expansion of the chest, see Compressive asphyxia
  • A technique used during cardiopulmonary resuscitation or for the treatment of choking

Famous quotes containing the words chest and/or compression:

    “Are you there, Africa with the bulging chest and oblong thigh? Sulking Africa, wrought of iron, in the fire, Africa of the millions of royal slaves, deported Africa, drifting continent, are you there? Slowly you vanish, you withdraw into the past, into the tales of castaways, colonial museums, the works of scholars.”
    —Jean Genet (1910–1986)

    “Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and that to compress it further can only make it more obscure?”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)