Automated device equal to manual chest compression.(POEMs)

Publication: American Family Physician

Publication Date: 01-OCT-06

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Clinical Question: Which method of resuscitation optimizes outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: manual chest compression or the use of an automated chest compression device?

Setting: Population-based

Study Design: Randomized controlled trial (nonblinded)

Allocation: Unconcealed

Synopsis: The investigators randomized (allocation not concealed) 1,071 eligible adults 18 years or older, with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presumed to be of cardiac origin, to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) via standard manual chest compression or the use of an automated...

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