Effects of alternating hands during in-hospital one-handed chest compression: A randomised cross-over manikin trial.

Sin Ae CheongJe Hyeok OhChan Woong KimSung Eun KimDong Hoon Lee

Published in: Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA (2015)

Chest compression depth decreased significantly when continuous OHCC was performed without switching hands. Alternating hands every 30 s can delay the decrease in MCD and maintain deeper MCD for longer.

Keyphrases

clinical trial
study protocol
open label
healthcare
phase iii
phase ii
cardiopulmonary resuscitation
double blind
optical coherence tomography
emergency department
cardiac arrest
placebo controlled
adverse drug