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Air medical journal · Nov 2014
Comparative StudyBenefit of mechanical chest compression devices in mountain HEMS: lessons learned from 1 year of experience and evaluation.
- Urs Pietsch, Volker Lischke, and Christine Pietsch.
- Kantonsspital St Gallen Klinik für Anästhesiologie, Raron, Switzerland.
- Air Med. J. 2014 Nov 1; 33 (6): 299-301.
IntroductionPre-hospital care of cardiac arrest patients in the mountain environment is one of the most challenging problems for helicopter medical emergency services (HEMS) teams. To provide high-quality chest compression with minimal hand s-off-time is very demanding in the alpine area.MethodsWe used and evaluated mechanical chest compression devices (Lucas and AutoPulse) and investigated if these are good and useful tools in the alpine HEMS. Over a period of 12 months we performed 7 CPRs in remote alpine terrain.ConclusionOn the strength of our past experience, CPR under special circumstances like deep hypothermia, in which a prolonged CPR is essential, the use of the Lucas and/or AutoPulse was an easy and sufficient tool even in difficult alpine terrain which requires special rescue missions like winch or MERS evacuation.Copyright © 2014 Air Medical Journal Associates. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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