Current opinion in critical care
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Curr Opin Crit Care · Jun 2017
ReviewSupportive technology in the resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients.
To discuss the increasing value of technological tools to assess and augment the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and, in turn, improve chances of surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ After 5 decades of focus on manual chest compressions for CPR, new technologies for monitoring, guiding, and enhancing CPR performance may enhance outcomes from OHCA significantly in the coming years.