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"New" compression device
I say "new" because until yesterday I had not used this device. The device Im referring to is called the, "auto pulse" marketed by Zoll. We had a rep at our hospital and we are trialing the device in our Emergency Department for possible future use throughout our facility. As a Paramedic I see abundant uses for it. I played around with it and found that it can be operated on a Pt even in a sitting position (in a car extrication situation or stair chair even!) You can strap the Pt to the device which is similar to a short spine board in its size. The device produces 100% of normal blood circulation and as much as 110% with Epi on board! This thing is incredible, normal human or piston device compressions produce no better than 30% of normal blood flow. You can even defib the Pt while it is compressing. So my question is this; Do any of you have experience good or bad with this device?
http://www.zoll.com/product.aspx?id=84
http://www.zoll.com/product.aspx?id=84
Tags: autopulse, compressions, cpr, zoll
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Permalink Reply by TheCannulator on -
Seeing the Autopulse has been around for a while, what about LUCAS 1 and 2. Seen any studines about it (them)
they may be considereda thumper, but really this is a thumper.
and so it this.....
and this
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Permalink Reply by Jennifer Berry on -
Sorry guys, but I'm going to steer this conversation back to #1. :-) I'm glad to see all the interest in CPR and mechanical CPR devices, because we have a free webcast about them coming up. Make sure to sign up for "How Mechanical CPR Devices Are Changing EMS Protocols." It will be at 11:30 a.m. on Aug. 12.
Click here to read about it and register.
TheCannulator said:Seeing the Autopulse has been around for a while, what about LUCAS 1 and 2. Seen any studines about it (them)
they may be considereda thumper, but really this is a thumper.
and so it this.....
and this
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Permalink Reply by Nathan on -
Ill defiantly be watching! By the way, your webcasts were a great idea! thanks!
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Permalink Reply by Nathan on
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I got an email from our rep after requesting copies of the studies he has. There are more case studies that I am still waiting on. For those interested, click the link and open the file which has files in the PDF format.
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reautopulse.zip, 6.1 MB
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Permalink Reply by Duncan Hitchcock on -
Nathan, If your Medical Director okays AutoPulse then go for it. You don't have to sell us the device. I would suggest that you track it's application and the outcome of every patient on which it is applied. Then do a retrospective analysis of doing CPR the old fashion way. Who lived and who died? Can you prove any difference? Only time will tell.
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Permalink Reply by Nathan on
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I know I do sound like Im trying to sell it, I guess I just want people to take a close look at this thing if they haven't already because it seems to show so much promise. It seems to be such a good thing for almost all the patients it is used on. I work in a hospital and we are trialing it in our ER dept so its already been approved we are just seeing how well our employees can implement it before going house wide.
Duncan Hitchcock said:Nathan, If your Medical Director okays AutoPulse then go for it. You don't have to sell us the device. I would suggest that you track it's application and the outcome of every patient on which it is applied. Then do a retrospective analysis of doing CPR the old fashion way. Who lived and who died? Can you prove any difference? Only time will tell.
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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on -
Nathan,
My service looked at it almost three years ago, and have chosen to stick with more proven interventions. When there is plenty of evidence that shows that it actually does what it says it does and that it isn't a wasted investment or that it doesn't generate worse outcomes than manual CPR, then we'll doubtless look at it again.
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