Automatic chest compression devices can offer significant logistic advantages even though they do not seem to enhance outcomes. Many hypotheses could explain this lack of difference. One hypothesis is that some of these devices take too long to install and cause important interruptions.

To minimize chest compression interruptions, we have created a video to demonstrate how the LUCAS-2 device should be installed to minimize interruptions:

Scientific evidence is necessary to enhance prehospital care. Such evidence can only be gathered if prehospital providers play an active part in data collection.

On September 1st, 2022, the first Prehospital Clinical Research Day of French Switzerland took place in Neuchâtel. To motivate participants and include them in a clinical research project, a research protocol was designed to allow investigators to collect simulation data and analyze it in a single day!

Here is the video of this challenge:

The following videos were used for the CPR-2 study (Stuby L, Jampen L, Sierro J, Bergeron M, Paus E, Spichiger T, Suppan L, Thurre D. Effect of Early Supraglottic Airway Device Insertion on Chest Compression Fraction during Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Randomised Controlled Trial. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2022; 11(1):217. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm11010217 (PMID 35011958) - Click here to read this study (Effect of Early Supraglottic Airway Device Insertion on Chest Compression Fraction during Simulated Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Randomised Controlled Trial)