Upright CPR?

[StCEMT]

Who'd have thunk it? Interesting little article courtesy of our fine Korean friends.
http://www.jems.com/articles/print/...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

 

[NomadicMedic]

Earlier research with alternative CPR modalaties was not as successful.

 

[Summit]

I saw that article today... sent it on to some folks haven't heard back

 

[NomadicMedic]

Who'd have thunk it? Interesting little article courtesy of our fine Korean friends.
http://www.jems.com/articles/print/...l&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Wasn't a department in the US doing this as well? I recall an article and a photo of them using a pelican case to prop up a backboard for "head up" CPR?

 

[StCEMT]

Wasn't a department in the US doing this as well? I recall an article and a photo of them using a pelican case to prop up a backboard for "head up" CPR?

I have never heard of this actually being a thing until today. I came across it scrolling the interwebs just by chance. I will look around for it, I still have an hour of sitting around to do.

 

[E tank]

Did that in flop hotels in tiny elevators in San Francisco. Tied to a scoop, stood 'em up and off we went.

 

[kev54]

While it's in JEMS I think SMACC Chicago had a presentation on it with the Korean study. I will see if I can find a link. I do remember a reference to the study somewhere in SMACC.

 

[kev54]

See this talk here. It mentions the study during the talk. http://www.smacc.net.au/2016/01/charles-bruen-engineering-better-cpr/

 

[TomB]

It was Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. To say the least, I worry about application time.

http://www.emsworld.com/article/12078215/heads-up-cpr

 

[VentMonkey]

Sort of on topic, while "Jems" gets a lot of bad press for their less than stellar articles, clearly they still provide some ConEd even if it can be mostly watered down.

Also, I file "EMS world" in the same class as "Jems", and think just cause it was reconfirmed, and/ or discussed at SMACC, it doesn't mean it carries any more or less credibility.

All three articles appear worth some thought

 

[MonkeyArrow]

I don't know why PBCFR is going through all of those steps, to address @TomB post. It would seem much easier to transition a patient to a backboard and then prop the head end of the board up with something. Application time shouldn't equal hands-off time though. Once you have applied the LUCAS, the patient manipulation time shouldn't be clinically significant, except to possible increase ROSC. The article TomB linked showed a 7% all rhythm ROSC increase, so it seems to be working, although I wait to see some sort of published RCT.

 

[CWATT]

Very interesting... I'd like to know more about the hemodynamics.