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Life saving chest compressions or hands-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) — an emergency medical procedure for a victim of cardiac arrest — is all set to go high-tech in India.    A group of young Indian medical technology innovators, who are part of the Stanford-India Biodesign (SIB) fellowship programme, have designed a “self-powered portable chest compressor” that will provide constant high quality chest compressions to patients, who suffer a cardiac arrest.    At present, chest compressions...

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