Leg-heel chest compression as an alternative for medical professionals in times of COVID-19

  1. Matthias Ott
  2. Alexander Krohn
  3. Laurence H. Bilfield
  4. Florian Dengler
  5. Christina Jaki
  6. Fabian Echterdiek
  7. Tobias Schilling
  8. Johannes Heymer

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  1. Version published to 10.1016/j.ajem.2021.09.007
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    Table 1: Rigor

    Institutional Review Board Statementnot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    , Laerdal Medical GmbH, Puchheim, Germany) and processed on a computer using Microsoft® Excel (Version 16.46
    Microsoft® Excel
    suggested: (Microsoft Excel, RRID:SCR_016137)
    , GraphPad Software, San Diego, CA, USA).
    GraphPad
    suggested: (GraphPad Prism, RRID:SCR_002798)

    Results from OddPub: We did not detect open data. We also did not detect open code. Researchers are encouraged to share open data when possible (see Nature blog).

    Results from LimitationRecognizer: We detected the following sentences addressing limitations in the study:
    Limitations of our study are the limited number of participants and the limited comparability to previous studies due to different methods of foot compression. Hence, we feel the results of our study are primarily hypothesis generating and warranting further research on larger collectives. Another limitation may be that for safety precautions it is not feasible to put off shoes to apply chest compression, especially in out of hospital settings. However, we observed comparable results applying leg-heel compression with shoes on. Furthermore, overall chest compression quality in both methods was more or less surprisingly bad. Unlike other studies, we did not provide any kind of feedback to the participants which may partly explain our results. Manual chest compressions are basic skills for any medical professional and essential for patient outcome[3, 18, 21]. Once again, these findings underline the all-important role of regularly CPR trainings to lay rescuers as well as to medical professionals.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.

    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.

    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.

    Results from rtransparent:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

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  3. Version published to 10.1101/2021.03.09.21253220v1 on medRxiv