Quality assessment of defibrillation and advanced life support using data from the medical control module of the defibrillator

1999 
Abstract What actually occurred during the two last links in the ‘chain of survival’: defibrillation and advanced life support (ALS), was studied in 156 patients with cardiac arrest of cardiac aetiology using the computer recording of the defibrillator and the Utstein-style data record. Ten patients (6%) survived. The ECG artefacts caused by chest compressions enabled a detailed analysis of compression rates (median 108 min −1 ) and duration of important compression free periods. The time from initiation of monitoring during asystole until chest compressions were initiated was median 29 s, significantly shorter than during electromechanical dissociation (EMD, 109 s; P P
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