Fluid accumulates in the chest, compressing the lungs and making breathing difficult.
The X-rays showed an enormous tumor filling Peter's chest, compressing his lungs from the middle and pushing outward.
In a teleconference yesterday, Dr. Bradley Perkins, an anthrax expert at the centers, attributed the outcomes to aggressive treatments with antibiotics, drugs to maintain blood pressure, ventilators to aid breathing, and draining fluid that accumulates in the chest, compressing patients' lungs.
In adult OOH cardiac arrest patients, the force required to achieve chest deflections of 38 mm ranged from 10 to 54 kg (98 to 530 Newton), varied as a function of chest stiffness (stiffer chests were compressed more forcefully than were softer chests and softer chests were compressed more deeply than were stiffer chests), and declined significantly with the number of compressions performed.
It's like someone has strapped an iron band around your chest and compressed it.
Ryan, who was elected president of the sandhogs' union, Local 147, in 1999, has trouble lifting his shoulders; his red hair has turned silver, and his broad chest is compressed, as if it were about to collapse.
"The chest got compressed, that caused [Thomas] not to breathe".
During cross-examination, Barnett asked coroner's pathologist Aruna Singhania to point out the moment when Thomas' chest was compressed.
The third mechanism occurs when the chest is compressed from front to back, causing it to widen from side to side.
