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Indications

Authoring team

There are three main indications for open cardiac massage:

  • a treatable thoracic cause for the arrest e.g. uncontrolled haemorrhage
  • resistant ventricular fibrillation
  • when closed cardiac massage fails to produce a femoral pulse

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