Mechanical CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A non-inferiority meta-analysis

s / Resuscitation 96S (2015) 43–157 127 Results: A total of 18 OHCA patients (mean age, gender) had the LDB-CCD deployed with the 3-phase protocol during ongoing CC. Manual CC were performed for 12.9min (10.85–18.32) prior to LDB-CCD deployment. Median CC pauses were 19.8 s (14.8–32) for backboard placement and 7.1 s for starting the LDB-CCD (7.1 s, 5–18.8) for a total deployment pause of 31.3 s (23–47.8). The duration of manual CCs between the two pauses for backboard placement and device initiation was 30.6 s (15.8–72.8). Conclusions: Use of a unique well-choreographed mechanical CC device deployment protocol, which features resumption of CC duringbandplacement, can result in significantly shorter CCpauses than those previously published. Although this study provides preliminary evidence that a multi-phase deployment protocol may limit CC pauses compared with a single-phase protocol, further study is required. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.09.300