The American journal of emergency medicine
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Chest compression quality during CPR of potential contagious patients wearing personal protection equipment.
In this study we aimed to investigate whether changing rescuers wearing N95 masks every 1 min instead of the standard CPR change over time of 2 min would make a difference in effective chest compressions. ⋯ Changing the rescuer every 1 min instead of every 2 min while performing CPR with full PPE may prevent the decrease in compression quality that may occur as the resuscitation time gets longer.