PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Buckley, Rita
ED  - Rubertsson, Sten
TI  - LINC: Manual and Mechanical CPR Produce Equivalent Outcomes
DP  - 2013 Nov 01
TA  - MD Conference Express
PG  - 14--14
VI  - 13
IP  - 15
4099  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/15/14.1.short
4100  - http://mdc.sagepub.com/content/13/15/14.1.full
AB  - Effective manual cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be difficult to perform. The LUCAS system is a piston-driven device with a suction cup designed to deliver compressions according to resuscitation guidelines at a depth of 4 to 5 cm. In contrast to manual CPR (M-CPR), defibrillation can be delivered during LUCAS CPR, to minimize interruptions to compressions. A Comparison of Conventional Adult Out-of-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Against a Concept With Mechanical Chest Compressions and Simultaneous Defibrillation study [LINC; NCT00609778] sought to examine the efficacy and safety of the LUCAS device in contrast with M-CPR.