Effect of real-time feedback during cardiopulmonary resuscitation outside hospital: prospective, cluster-randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether real-time audio and visual feedback during cardiopulmonary resuscitation outside hospital increases the proportion of subjects who achieved prehospital return of spontaneous circulation.

Design

A cluster-randomised trial.

Subjects

1586 people having cardiac arrest outside hospital in whom resuscitation was attempted by emergency medical services (771 procedures without feedback, 815 with feedback).

Setting

Emergency medical services from three sites within the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium in the United States and Canada.

Intervention

Real-time audio and visual feedback on cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) provided by the monitor-defibrillator.

Main outcome measure

Prehospital return of spontaneous circulatio

SUBMITTER: Hostler D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3033623 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature