Hands-Only CPR on a mannequin. (American Heart Association via SWNS)
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Fictional depictions of CPR are often "misleading" - and could cost lives, warns new research.
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Beth Hoffman, Ph.D., MPH., assistant professor of behavioral and community health sciences at University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health (University of Pittsburgh via SWNS)
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