Resuscitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
Effect of an inspiratory impedance threshold device on hemodynamics during conventional manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In animals in cardiac arrest, an inspiratory impedance threshold device (ITD) has been shown to improve hemodynamics and neurologically intact survival. The objective of this study was to determine whether an ITD would improve blood pressure (BP) in patients receiving CPR for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Use of the active ITD was found to increase systolic pressures safely and significantly in patients in cardiac arrest compared with sham controls.