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Area of Science:

  • Pediatric critical care medicine
  • Human factors engineering
  • Biomedical engineering

Background:

  • Excessive ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) negatively impacts hemodynamics and patient outcomes.
  • Pediatric providers frequently struggle to adhere to recommended CPR ventilation rates.
  • Improving ventilation compliance is crucial for optimizing CPR effectiveness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and evaluate a novel metronome using human factors engineering to enhance adherence to guideline-recommended CPR ventilation rates.
  • To test the hypothesis that the metronome would achieve high usability scores (System Usability Scale > 68) and improve ventilation rate accuracy (>70% of epochs within target range).

Main Methods:

  • A prospective, single-center, mixed-methods study was conducted in a 75-bed academic pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
  • Multidisciplinary clinicians participated in survey feedback, participatory design sessions, and high-fidelity simulation usability testing.
  • Ventilation rates were assessed during 30-second CPR epochs, with target adherence defined as ±2 breaths/min from the recommended rate.

Main Results:

  • Clinician surveys indicated favorable perceptions of the metronome's appropriateness, acceptability, and feasibility.
  • Usability testing with 34 clinicians yielded a median System Usability Scale score of 92.5, with zero attributable errors.
  • During simulated CPR, 94% of epochs achieved ventilation rates within ±2 breaths/min of the target rate.

Conclusions:

  • Human factors engineering and implementation science were successfully applied to create an effective ventilation rate metronome.
  • The novel metronome demonstrated high usability and significantly improved compliance with recommended CPR ventilation rates in a simulated environment.
  • This device shows promise for enhancing CPR quality in clinical settings.