Real-time feedback improves chest compression quality in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A prospective cohort study

Felix Lakomek, Roman-Patrik Lukas, Peter Brinkrolf, Andreas Mennewisch, Nicole Steinsiek, Peter Gutendorf, Hendrik Sudowe, Michael Heller, Robert Kwiecien, Alexander Zarbock and Andreas Bohn

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-15

Abstract: Background: Current guidelines underline the importance of high-quality chest compression during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), to improve outcomes. Contrary to this many studies show that chest compression is often carried out poorly in clinical practice, and long interruptions in compression are observed. This prospective cohort study aimed to analyse whether chest compression quality changes when a real-time feedback system is used to provide simultaneous audiovisual feedback on chest compression quality. For this purpose, pauses in compression, compression frequency and compression depth were compared. Methods: The study included 292 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in three consecutive study groups: first group, conventional resuscitation (no-sensor CPR); second group, using a feedback sensor to collect compression depth data without real-time feedback (sensor-only CPR); and third group, with real-time feedback on compression quality (sensor-feedback CPR). Pauses and frequency were analysed using compression artefacts on electrocardiography, and compression depth was measured using the feedback sensor. With this data, various parameters were determined in order to be able to compare the chest compression quality between the three consecutive groups. Results: The compression fraction increased with sensor-only CPR (group 2) in comparison with no-sensor CPR (group 1) (80.1% vs. 87.49%; P

Date: 2020
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