... sternal edge to holdthe chest open.I immediately reached in and began open cardiac mas-sage by gently pushing down on her heart, which was covered by a sac called the pericardium and mediastinal ... the director of women’scardiac services at Saint John’s Health Center in Santa Monica,California, and an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Tor-rance Memorial Medical Center in Torrance, California, ... you’renot doing it right.” Macabre medical humor noir, maybe, butthe first time I did CPR as a medical student it was on an oldman and I swear with my first compression I heard (and felt!)every...