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Reenactment of CPR in the lateral position. Picture (a) shows one surgeon standing in front of the patient and pushed the patient's sternum. Picture (b) shows the other surgeon standing behind the patient and pushed his mid-thoracic spine. Chest compression was performed from both sides simultaneously at approximately 100 times per min. A patient is firmly fixed in the lateral position by the body-fixing devices and immediate transposition to supine is challenging
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Fig1
So chest compression by two surgeons started with the patient in the lateral position (Fig. 1).
Overview of the resuscitation from the beginning of acute hemorrhage to the chest re-closure. CPR was performed for 25 min in the left lateral position and with the right thorax open
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Fig2
The overview of resuscitation is shown in the Fig. 2.