Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
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Multicenter Study
Classification of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Chest Compression Patterns: Manual Versus Automated Approaches.
New chest compression detection technology allows for the recording and graphical depiction of clinical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) chest compressions. The authors sought to determine the inter-rater reliability of chest compression pattern classifications by human raters. Agreement with automated chest compression classification was also evaluated by computer analysis. ⋯ In this study, good inter-rater agreement in the manual classification of CPR chest compression patterns was observed. Automated classification showed strong agreement with human ratings. These observations support the consistency of manual CPR pattern classification as well as the use of automated approaches to chest compression pattern analysis.