If the glove fits… Evaluation of novel technique for pediatric chest compressions

Basic life support for the child and infant

“…Though infants and children have different shaped chests than adults, they have smaller hearts, which lie more horizontally and higher in the mediastinal cavity than adult hearts and this supports delivering chest compressions to one third of the depth of the chest (Novak, 2004). It is important to ensure that the depth and release of chest compressions allow the ventricles of the heart to expand and contract fully, which can be achieved by compressing the lower half of the sternum and ensuring full chest wall recoil before the next compression starts (Rossano and Naim, 2013).…”