Sentence examples for chest compressing from inspiring English sources

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.

Bleeding inside his chest compressed his heart and required emergency surgery.

When I asked him whether there was a danger that his heroic story might glamorise the job, Junger replied: "We show Tim lying dead in the hospital, having his chest compressed.

When the lung on the affected side of the chest collapses, the heart, blood vessels, and airways are pushed to the centre of the chest, thereby compressing the other lung.

The greatest reduction in air flow occurs when breathing out, as the pressure in the chest is compressing the airways at this time.

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.

Mechanical chest compression devices could compress the chest sufficiently regardless of the tilt [ 2, 3].

It's like someone has strapped an iron band around your chest and compressed it.

His point was that this position allowed the weight of his large abdomen and chest to compress his lungs and diaphragm.