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Resuscitation Injuries

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The concept of injury consequent upon attempts at resuscitation giving rise to difficulty in interpretation of injuries noted at post-mortem examination is not new, the possibility being alluded to in R v, Sidney Harry Fox in 1930 [1]. Many reviews of the types and range of injury encountered after — and attributed to — closed-chest cardiac massage [2] have appeared in the clinicopathological literature [3–16] but fewer have concentrated upon questions of medicolegal interpretation [17–24].

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Leadbeatter, S. (2001). Resuscitation Injuries. In: Rutty, G.N. (eds) Essentials of Autopsy Practice. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0699-9_3

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