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I was only recently certified and still have no field experience. One always hears that chest compressions can and often do cause great chest injury. I've even heard that the sternum can become completely detached from the rest of the rib cage. This sounds pretty reasonable when I think about how frail someone like my grandmother is.
So these questions are for those of you who have had the opportunity to perform many codes. What amount of chest damage have you personally seen happen to patients? Do healthy adult chests usually withstand the punishment without significantly breaking? Do elderly or pediatric chests usually break? Can a broken chest even recoil properly? Do you feel it when the chest becomes damaged, or does it happen without much evidence? Does damaging the chest mean that you're compressing too forcefully, or is it understood to be unavoidable?
So these questions are for those of you who have had the opportunity to perform many codes. What amount of chest damage have you personally seen happen to patients? Do healthy adult chests usually withstand the punishment without significantly breaking? Do elderly or pediatric chests usually break? Can a broken chest even recoil properly? Do you feel it when the chest becomes damaged, or does it happen without much evidence? Does damaging the chest mean that you're compressing too forcefully, or is it understood to be unavoidable?