title: Physical fitness and resuscitation.
abstract: Would a muscle-strength exercise programme for ED staff improve patient survival rates after cardiac arrest? Ock and colleagues from the Catholic University of Korea think that it could. They studied the physical fitness of 47 medical students, 25 men and 22 women with a mean age of 22 years, by assessing their ability to perform uninterrupted chest compressions on a manikin for five minutes.