American journal of critical care : an official publication, American Association of Critical-Care Nurses
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Am. J. Crit. Care
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The quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) coach role was developed for hospital-based resuscitation teams. This supplementary team member (CPR coach) provides real-time, verbal feedback on chest compression quality to compressors during a cardiac arrest. ⋯ The quality CPR coach training intervention significantly increased coach presence on code teams, which was associated with clinically significant improvements in some metrics of quality CPR delivery in real cardiopulmonary arrests.