(1) A technique that afforded relief of prolapse and of incontinence by laparoscopic rectal sacropexy, performed without sutures, using a newly designed laparoscopic sacral tacker and laparoscopic staples, is described.
(2) Using the cardiac arrest and resuscitation model of de Garavilla, Babbs, and Tacker with an arrest time of eight minutes, 76% of the animals arrested were resuscitated with an average intermittent abdominal compression-CPR time of 3.3 minutes.