Discriminating the effect of accelerated compression from accelerated decompression during high-impulse CPR in a porcine model of cardiac arrest

Resuscitation
Øystein TømteKjetil Sunde

Abstract

Piston based mechanical chest compression devices deliver compressions and decompressions in an accelerated pattern, resulting in superior haemodynamics compared to manual compression in animal studies. The present animal study compares haemodynamics during two different hybrid compression patterns to a standard compression pattern resembling that of modern mechanical chest compression devices. In 12 anaesthetized domestic pigs in ventricular fibrillation, coronary perfusion pressures (CPP) and cerebral cortical blood flow (CCBF) was measured, and transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) was performed. Two hybrid compression patterns, one with accelerated trapezoid compression and slower sinusoid decompression (TrS), and one with slower sinusoid compression and accelerated trapezoid decompression (STr), were tested against a standard accelerated trapezoid compression-decompression pattern (TrTr) in a cross-over randomised setup. There were 7% (1, 14, p=0.046) lower CCBF and 3 mmHg (1, 5, p=0.017) lower CPP with the TrS compared to TrTr pattern. No significant difference between STr and TrTr pattern in either CCBF, 6% (-3, 15, p=0.176) or CPP, 0 mmHg (-2, 3, p=0.703) was present. Our TEE recordings were insufficient for haemodynam...Continue Reading

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