Compression-Only CPR or Standard CPR in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest | Zendy

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Compression-Only CPR or Standard CPR in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Author(s) -

Leif Svensson,

Katarina Bohm,

Maaret Castrén,

Hans Pettersson,

Lars Engerström,

Johan Herlitz,

Mårten Rosenqvist

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

new england journal of medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889

H-Index - 1030

eISSN - 1533-4406

pISSN - 0028-4793

DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa0908991

Subject(s) - medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , return of spontaneous circulation , confidence interval , clinical endpoint , emergency medical services , resuscitation , compression (physics) , randomized controlled trial , emergency medicine , materials science , composite material

Emergency medical dispatchers give instructions on how to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) over the telephone to callers requesting help for a patient with suspected cardiac arrest, before the arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) personnel. A previous study indicated that instructions to perform CPR consisting of only chest compression result in a treatment efficacy that is similar or even superior to that associated with instructions given to perform standard CPR, which consists of both compression and ventilation. That study, however, was not powered to assess a possible difference in survival. The aim of this prospective, randomized study was to evaluate the possible superiority of compression-only CPR over standard CPR with respect to survival.

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