Does dual operator CPR help minimize interruptions in chest compressions?
Fallaha, Jon F., Spooner, Brendan B. and Perkins, Gavin D.. (2009) Does dual operator CPR help minimize interruptions in chest compressions? Resuscitation, Vol.80 (No.9). pp. 1011-1014. ISSN 0300-9572
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.04....
Aims: Basic Life Support Guidelines 2005 emphasise the importance of reducing interruptions in chest compressions (no-flow duration) yet at the same time stopped recommending Dual Operator CPR. Dual Operator CPR (where one rescuer does ventilations and one chest compressions) could potentially minimize no-flow duration compared to Single Operator CPR. This study aims to determine if Dual Operator CPR reduces no-flow duration compared to Single Operator CPR.
Methodology: This was a prospective randomised controlled crossover trial. Medical students were randomised into 'Dual Operator' or 'Single Operator' CPR groups. Both groups performed 4 min of CPR according to their group allocation on a resuscitation manikin before crossing over to perform the other technique one week later.
Results: Fifty participants were recruited. Dual Operator CPR achieved slightly lower no-flow durations than the Single Operator CPR (28.5% (S.D. = 3.7) versus 31.6% (S.D. = 3.6), P <= 0.001). Dual Operator CPR was associated with slightly more rescue breaths per minute (4.9 (S.D. = 0.5) versus 4.5 (S.D. = 0.5), P = 0.009. There was no difference in compression depth, compression rate, duty cycle, rescue breath flow rate or rescue breath volume.
Conclusions: Dual Operator CPR with a compression to ventilation rate of 30: 2 provides marginal improvement in no-flow duration but CPR quality is otherwise equivalent to Single Operator CPR. There seems little advantage to adding teaching on Dual Operator CPR to lay/trained first responder CPR programs.
|Item Type:||Journal Article|
|Subjects:||R Medicine > RC Internal medicine|
|Divisions:||Faculty of Medicine > Warwick Medical School|
|Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):||CPR (First aid) -- Methodology, CPR (First aid) -- Study and teaching|
|Journal or Publication Title:||Resuscitation|
|Publisher:||Elsevier Ireland Ltd|
|Official Date:||September 2009|
|Number of Pages:||4|
|Page Range:||pp. 1011-1014|
|Access rights to Published version:||Restricted or Subscription Access|
|Funder:||Resuscitation Council (UK), National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR)|
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