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Movies get drowning resuscitation wildly wrong

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Forget aggressive chest compressions that crack ribs. Reviving someone who just drowned requires only two extremely gentle presses on the collarbone and passionately screaming 'do not die on me!', which immediately forces the victim to cough up half a gallon of water and be perfectly fine.

Movies get drowning resuscitation wildly wrong
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