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QCPR: Quality CPR Saves Lives

Measure To Improve

There are many factors that contribute to survival from cardiac arrest but none as powerful as receiving high quality CPR.

What is QCPR Technology?

Laerdal’s QCPR-enabled manikins and feedback devices measure the quality of CPR performance, providing real-time and summative feedback on the critical components of high-quality CPR as defined by the American Heart Association.

Track, Measure and Improve

  • Chest compressions rate
  • Chest compressions depth
  • Chest compression recoil
  • Chest compression fraction
  • Ventilation rate and volume
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Help Ensure Quality CPR with Real-Time Feedback

The consensus is clear: high-quality CPR saves lives,1,2 but when seconds and millimeters can be the difference, even seasoned professionals can have difficulty achieving correct compressions on look and feel alone.

Fortunately, multiple studies3,4 have shown that real-time feedback can improve the quality of compressions provided. As the Resuscitation Academy's Mike Helbock states below, "You cannot improve that what you cannot measure," meaning if your goal is to optimize performance, performance feedback becomes a necessity.

 

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Resuscitation Experts on Real-Time Feedback

Five experts share their thoughts on the role of using real-time feedback devices in improving survival from cardiac arrest.

Getting healthcare providers to do Guidelines compressions is difficult, and you really need some sort of feedback device to know how fast your rate is or how deep your depth is. At our institution, we’re starting to use more and more of these devices, because we know that healthcare providers can’t do Guidelines CPR quality not because they can’t, but because they just don’t know what 2 inches of depth is without some sort of feedback.

Marion Leary, Assistant Director, Clinical Research Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania
Marion Leary, Assistant Director, Clinical Research Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania

All of us should be measuring our performance in CPR. … We have a range in which we need to stay between in order to optimize outcomes for our patients. We need to be able to measure that, in real time, get real-time feedback, as well as measure our outcomes in our own communities and know what our performance is, so that we can identify issues, optimize care, and identify problems and change them.

Karl Kern, MD, Professor, University of Arizona
Karl Kern, MD, Professor, University of Arizona

It keeps us honest, is the bottom line. … It tells us if our compressions are too deep or if our timing is off or anything like that, so we’re constantly working at using that feedback. You train people how to do the best possible CPR, and doing it with feedback devices is critical because it gives you a good model of how to do as perfect CPR as you can get.

Craig Baughnsmith, Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic, King County Medic One
Craig Baughnsmith, Mobile Intensive Care Paramedic, King County Medic One

Monitoring and feedback for CPR, I think in a way, that’s the most important thing for EMS providers, for in-hospital providers. … Max Harry Weil, who invented ICU, said, ‘Not using CPR feedback during a code is like a pilot not using GPS while they’re flying a plane.’” … For healthcare providers, I think it’s absolutely essential that we have specific feedback on quality of CPR. That’s extremely important in training.

Edward Stapleton, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook School of Medicine
Edward Stapleton, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Stony Brook School of Medicine

We are really firm believers of being able to provide feedback to individuals when they go through their training. Being able to provide them with that immediate feedback about what their compression rate and depth is, is really integral in the education process. It helps people to really understand where their deficits are and what they can improve upon. It’s something that’s very important, and hopefully will be able to be integrated in future subsequent educational iterations.

Audrey Blewer, MPH, Assistant Director, Educational Programs, Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania
Audrey Blewer, MPH, Assistant Director, Educational Programs, Center for Resuscitation Science, University of Pennsylvania

Helping You Succeed

AHA Feedback Requirement

Following the scientific evidence on feedback devices highlighted in the 2015 AHA Guidelines Update for CPR and ECC, effective January 31, 2019, the AHA now requires the use of an instrumented directive feedback device or manikin in all AHA courses that teach the skills of adult CPR.1

Meet the 2019 AHA Feedback Requirement with Laerdal’s Resuscitation Training Solutions

 

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Community CPR

Now available with a gaming element and feedback technology, instructors can improve CPR training quality, classroom efficiency and learner engagement.

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Professional CPR

The Resusci range has been used to train over 500 million people. Further enhancements ensure it will keep helping you create teams that perform at their best.

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1. Steven L. Kronick, Michael C. Kurz, et al Part 4: Systems of Care and Continuous Quality Improvement 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines Update for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care. Circulation. 2015;132:S397-S413
2. Nichol G, Thomas E, Callaway CW, Hedges J, Powell JL, Aufderheide TP, Rea T, Lowe R, Brown T, Dreyer J, Davis D, Idris A, Stiell I; Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium Investigators. Regional variation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest incidence and outcome [published correction appears in JAMA. 2008;300:1763]. JAMA. 2008;300:1423–1431.
3. Skorning, M., Beckers, S.K., Brokmann, J.C., et al. (2010), Resuscitation; New Visual Feedback Device Improves Performance of Chest Compressions by Professionals in Simulated Cardiac Arrest”
4. Buleon, J. Parienti, J-J, Halbout, L., et. al.(2013) AJEM; Improvement in chest compression quality using feedback device (CPRmeter):a simulation randomized crossover study