TELEPHONE-ASSISTED BYSTANDER COMPRESSION-ONLY CPR: DOES "PUSH AS HARD AS YOU CAN" ENHANCE CHEST COMPRESSION DEPTH
R. van Tulder, D. Roth, C. Havel, P. Eisenburger, B. Heidinger, C. Chwojka, H. Novosad, F. Sterz, H. Herkner, W. Schreiber
Mar 01, 2014|AEDR 2014 Vol. 2 Issue 1|Poster Abstracts
In telephone assisted, advanced medical priority dispatch system (AMPDS) driven, lay-rescuer, compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (COCPR) it remains unclear whether the instruction "push as hard as you can" improves compression depth. This was a prospective, experimental, double-blinded, randomized, controlled, parallel group study to compare the depth of chest compressions achieved following the instruction "push as hard as you can" and the recommended guidelines. Primary outcome was defined as compression depth. Secondary outcomes were defined as...