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Metronome Use for Coordination of Breaths and Cardiac Compressions Delivered by Minimally-Trained Caregivers During Two-Person CPRAstronaut crew medical officers (CMO) aboard the International Space Station (ISS) receive 40 hours of medical training over 18 months before each mission, including two-person cardiopulmonary resuscitation (2CPR) as recommended by the American Heart Association (AHA). Recent studies have concluded that the use of metronomic tones improves the coordination of 2CPR by trained clinicians. 2CPR performance data for minimally-trained caregivers has been limited. The goal of this study was to determine whether use of a metronome by minimally-trained caregivers (CMO analogues) would improve 2CPR performance. 20 pairs of minimally-trained caregivers certified in 2CPR via AHA guidelines performed 2CPR for 4 minutes on an instrumented manikin using 3 interventions: 1) Standard 2CPR without a metronome [NONE], 2) Standard 2CPR plus a metronome for coordinating compression rate only [MET], 3) Standard 2CPR plus a metronome for coordinating both the compression rate and ventilation rate [BOTH]. Caregivers were evaluated for their ability to meet the AHA guideline of 32 breaths-240 compressions in 4 minutes. All (100%) caregivers using the BOTH intervention provided the required number of ventilation breaths as compared with the NONE caregivers (10%) and MET caregivers (0%). For compressions, 97.5% of the BOTH caregivers were not successful in meeting the AHA compression guideline; however, an average of 238 compressions of the desired 240 were completed. None of the caregivers were successful in meeting the compression guideline using the NONE and MET interventions. This study demonstrates that use of metronomic tones by minimally-trained caregivers for coordinating both compressions and breaths improves 2CPR performance. Meeting the breath guideline is important to minimize air entering the stomach, thus decreasing the likelihood of gastric aspiration. These results suggest that manifesting a metronome for the ISS may augment the performance of 2CPR on orbit and thus may increase the level of care.
Document ID
20060021607
Acquisition Source
Johnson Space Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
Authors
Hurst, Victor, IV
(Wyle Labs., Inc. Houston, TX, United States)
West, Sarah
(Georgia Inst. of Tech. Atlanta, GA, United States)
Austin, Paul
(Uniformed Services Univ. of the Health Sciences Silver Spring, MD, United States)
Branson, Richard
(Cincinnati Univ. OH, United States)
Beck, George
(Impact Instrumentation, Inc. Caldwell, NJ, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2005
Subject Category
Aerospace Medicine
Meeting Information
Meeting: Aerospace Medicine Association Annual Conference
Location: Kansas City, MO
Country: United States
Start Date: May 8, 2005
End Date: May 12, 2005
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other

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