chest compression

noun

1. the application of pressure to the chest to prevent it from expanding, used in cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Example Sentences

A 21-year-old remembered that scene when he found an unresponsive woman in Arizona, and, despite having never been trained in CPR, performed chest compression that may have saved the woman’s life, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

From Los Angeles Times

When paramedics respond to a stroke, there is no wound on which to apply pressure, no dramatic chest compression to deploy.

From New York Times

The footage primarily showed the deputies doing CPR on a bloody Charley as his head wobbled uncontrollably back and forth with each chest compression.

From Seattle Times

Most of the 13 minutes of video from both deputies show them going back and forth doing CPR on a bloody Moorer Charley with his eyes up and his head wobbling uncontrollably back and forth with each chest compression.

From Seattle Times

A well-edited, horrifying sequence takes viewers from room to room with a certain pattern emerging: A nurse in personal protective equipment holds up a phone or tablet in a transparent plastic bag so the patient can communicate with family; the patient seems stable at first but then slips quickly into further illness; and resuscitation efforts, via chest compression, electric shock or epinephrine injection, fail.

From Los Angeles Times