AMBU CARDIOPUMP "APPEARS MORE EFFECTIVE" FOR CERTAIN CPR PATIENTS
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
AMBU CARDIOPUMP "APPEARS MORE EFFECTIVE" FOR CERTAIN CPR PATIENTS, Keith Lurie, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, et al. conclude in a study published in the May 11 Journal of the American Medical Association. According to Lurie et al., active compression-decompression cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ACD CPR) using the Cardiopump "appears to be more effective than standard CPR in a well-defined subset of victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests during the critical initial phases of resuscitation."