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Paediatric basic life support: a practical assessment.

S D Whyte1, J P Wyllie

  • 1Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, South Cleveland Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK.

Resuscitation
|September 17, 1999
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Hospital providers struggle to meet European Resuscitation Council guidelines for paediatric basic life support. Most trained rescuers could not achieve the recommended 20 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) cycles per minute due to significant transfer time between compressions and ventilations.

Area of Science:

  • Emergency Medicine
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Paediatric Life Support

Background:

  • Current European Resuscitation Council (ERC) guidelines recommend 20 cycles/min for paediatric basic life support.
  • These guidelines specify a compression rate of 100/min and a 5:1 compression-to-ventilation ratio.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate if hospital providers can adhere to the current ERC guidelines for paediatric basic life support.
  • To assess the feasibility of delivering 20 cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) cycles per minute in a single-rescuer scenario.

Main Methods:

  • 24 rescuers with paediatric life support training performed single-rescuer CPR on a mannequin for 5 minutes.
  • Compressions and ventilations were recorded, and the 5:1 ratio was maintained.
  • The number of CPR cycles and time spent on compressions, ventilations, and transfer were analyzed.

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Main Results:

  • Over 95% of rescuers (23 out of 24) could not achieve 20 CPR cycles per minute.
  • The median number of cycles achieved was 11 per minute in both the first and fifth minutes.
  • Transfer time between compressions and ventilations accounted for approximately 30% of the total CPR cycle time.

Conclusions:

  • Current ERC guidelines for paediatric basic life support may be difficult to achieve in practice for single rescuers.
  • The significant 'transfer time' between compressions and ventilations needs to be considered in future guideline revisions.
  • Prospective audits and practicability studies are recommended for any changes to resuscitation recommendations.