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I have been a CPR instructor for many years.

If you do compresions of the xiphoid, it could lacerate the liver and the person could die.

Keep your hands "high" on the chest.

If the xiphoid were broken off the sterum for anyreason, accident or othewise, it could have the same results

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It's not exactly easy, but really enthusiastic CPR can damage it and lacerate internal organs. Keep to upper sternum. A direct impact from a blunt object certainly can crack it amd do even worse internal damage.

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