Abstract 17679: Automating Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Quality Data Abstraction for Entire Episodes of Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation

Introduction: Research and quality assessment of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) quality has traditionally been limited to the first five minutes of resuscitation due to significant costs in both time and personnel from manual data abstraction. Manual CPR quality data abstraction of entire episodes of resuscitation may be too resource-intensive for many emergency medical service (EMS) agencies and hospitals. Moreover, the first five minutes of CPR are also different in many aspects compared to later time periods during cardiac arrest resuscitation, which represents significant knowledge gaps since the majority of resuscitations go beyond five minutes. Methods: We developed a software program to facilitate and help automate data abstraction from electronic defibrillator files for entire resuscitation episodes. Internal validation of the software program was performed on 50 randomly selected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases with resuscitation durations up to 60 minutes. CPR quality data variables we...