CompressionThe study aims to evaluate the optimal chest compression site in two-rescuer infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Charts and multidirectional computed tomography images of infants who presented to one of four hospitals from March 2004 to March 2009 were reviewed retrospectively. The ...
When two rescuers are present, performing CPR on a child is the same as performing CPR on an adult,except that the compression ventilation ratio when 2 rescuers are present drops to 15:2. One or two hands may be used to compress the chest to a depth of 1/3 the diameter of the chest...
Methods: In this randomized crossover manikin trial, participants performed two minutes of CPR with a 30:2 compression:ventilation ratio using the palm presser and the TFT in randomized sequence on an infant manikin. CPR parameters, including compression depth and hands-off time, were collected to...
The quantitative and qualitative differences between the two-finger (TF) and two-thumb-encircling hands (TT) techniques were not sufficiently investigated to determine which is more effective for single-rescuer infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). As the type of chest compression (CC) technique...
(CPR) with two different methods.Methods: Using a neonatal manikin, 17 subject-pairs were randomized in a crossover design to provide 5-min CPR with a 3:1 chest compression (CC) to ventilation (C:V) ratio and continuous CCs at a rate of 120 min−1 with asynchronous ventilations (...
Objective: We developed a novel compression assist device (palm presser) to perform chest compressions using a palm in infant cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). We hypothesized that the palm presser will increase compression depth without increasing hands-off time and will reduce rescuer fatigue ...