In connection with the scientific publication, the study presents five videos that have been exported with so-called predefined display settings from the specialised imaging software.

"Specialised radiological software is needed to be able to utilise and show the full potential of the method and what it can deliver. In the article we therefore use the videos as a practical and known format to communicate how our new method is able to contribute to creating new insight into different elements of heart massage for experts within the field. Furthermore, we believe that anyone who has completed a first aid course will be able to relate to the videos. So we also hope that these videos will be fully utilised in the general first aid courses," says Kasper Hansen.


"Our results are a fine example of how research on the deceased can help the living, which is a mantra within forensic medicine research all over the world. The relatives of the deceased person used in this study have agreed to the experiment being carried out and to the publication of the results." This is of invaluable importance for this type of research, emphasises Kasper Hansen.

"It helps to bring us closer to our goal, which is for the method we present in the study to contribute to the development of better and more effective procedures for the treatment of cardiac arrest - and in this way to more people surviving a cardiac arrest," says Kasper Hansen.


About the study
The study is experimental novel method basic research.

The project was carried out in a collaboration between researchers from Aarhus University and the University of Leicester, UK.

The study was supported by a scholarship from the "Resuscitation Council (UK)".

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