Effectiveness of Pediatric Resuscitation

Quality of Chest Compressions During 8 Min of Single-rescuer Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation With Five Different CPR Feedback Devices. Randomised Crossover Manikin Trial

The aim of this study was to compare five CPR feedback devices to standard BLS in terms of the quality of single rescuer pediatric resuscitation. Therefore, the investigators hypothesis was that there would be no difference between CPR methods in terms of chest compression quality parameters.

Cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death worldwide. High-quality chest compressions are of paramount importance for survival and good neurological outcome. Unfortunately, even health professionals have difficulty performing effective CPR. Chest compression (CC) is often too shallow, compression ratio is inadequate, and hands-off time is too long. CPR feedback devices might be an option for rescuers to in order to increase CC efficiency.

Inclusion Criteria:

• give voluntary consent to participate in the study
• medical profession (paramedics, nurses, physicians) or medical students (nurses, paramedics, physicians)

Exclusion Criteria:

• not meet the above criteria
• wrist or low back diseases