Abstract
A systematic review to determine if cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guided by either real-time or post-event feedback could improve CPR quality or patient outcome compared to unguided CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Four databases were searched; PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library in August 2020 for post 2010 literature on OHCA in adults. Critical outcomes were chest compression depth, rate and fraction. Important outcomes were any return of spontaneous circulation, survival to hospital and survival to discharge. A total of 9464 studies were identified with 61 eligibility for full text screening. A total of eight studies was included in the meta-analysis. Five studies investigated real-time feedback and three investigated post-event feedback. Meta-analysis revealed that real-time feedback statistically improves compression depth and rate while post-event feedback improved depth and fraction. Feedback did not statistically improve patient outcome but an improvement in absolute numbers revealed a clinical effect of feedback. Heterogenity varied from "might not be important" to "considerable". To significantly improve CPR quality real-time and post-event feedback should be combined. Neither real-time nor post event feedback could statistically be associated with patient outcome however, a clinical effect was detected. The conclusions reached were based on few studies of low to very low quality. CRD42019133881. [Abstract copyright: © 2021 The Authors.]
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 100101 |
| Journal | Resuscitation Plus |
| Volume | 6 |
| Early online date | 12 Mar 2021 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Jun 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Note: This work is supported by the TrygFoundation, Laerdal Foundation and Oak Foundation.Keywords
- Allied health professions and studies
- CCD
- CCF
- CCR
- CI
- CINAHL
- CPR
- CPR quality
- Cochrane's risk of bias in non-randomized studies - of interventions
- EMS
- ERC
- European Resuscitation Council
- GRADE
- IHCA
- MD
- MESH
- OHCA
- PICO
- PRISMA
- PROSPERO
- RCT
- ROBINS-I
- ROSC
- RR
- assessment
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- chest compression depth
- chest compression fraction
- chest compression rate
- comparison and outcome
- confidence interval
- cumulative index to nursing and allied health literature
- development
- emergency medical service
- evaluation
- grades of recommendation
- in-hospital cardiac arrest
- international prospective register of systematic reviews
- intervention
- mean difference
- medical subject headings
- out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
- population
- post-event feedback
- preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses
- randomised controlled trial
- real-time feedback
- return of spontaneous circulation
- risk ratio