Comparison of Manual Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Versus Automatic CPR Machine During Ambulance Transport.

National Taiwan University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Cardiac Arrest

Treatments: Device: Automatic CPR machine

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00308815

9361701098

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a randomized controlled prospective study which assigned patient to receive manual CPR or automatic CPR machine use. The quality and efficacy between manual CPR and machine CPR will be evaluated.

Sex: All

Ages: 16+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patient in Taipei distric
• Patients sent to National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) through Jhongsiao Emergency medical service (EMS) team

Exclusion criteria

• Younger than 15 years old
• Traumatic cardia arrest
• Patients not sent to NTUH by Jhongsiao EMS team

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Single Blind