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:

    “Man is head, chest and stomach. Each of these animals operates, more often than not, individually. I eat, I feel, I even, although rarely, think.... This jungle crawls and teems, is hungry, roars, gets angry, devours itself, and its cacophonic concert does not even stop when you are asleep.”
    —René Daumal (1908–1944)

    “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)