Abella: Lecture on CPR Quality

CPR quality and saving
lives from cardiac arrest
Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, FACEP
Clinical Research Director
Center for Resuscitation Science
Department of Emergency Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
RACI – May 2014
Speaker disclosures
Research Funding:
NIH – NHLBI R18
Philips Healthcare
Doris Duke Foundation
Medtronic Foundation
Speaking Honoraria:
Medivance Corporation
Advisory Board:
HeartSine Technologies
Velomedix Corporation
Volunteer:
American Heart Assoc.
Sudden Cardiac Arrest Assoc.
Cardiac arrest
Electrical recording
of the heart rhythm:
Cardiac
Normal
arrest
rhythm:
rhythm:
chaotic heart
rhythm
is moving
means no
blood
blood flow
(no(functional
functional “cardiac
cardiac output)
output”)
In cardiac arrest, abrupt and total loss of cardiac output
Uniformly fatal unless immediate treatment given (e.g. CPR)
Cardiac arrest epidemiology in the US
400,000 arrests / year
2/3
Out-of-hospital
1-5%
survival to
hospital
discharge
1/3
In-hospital
10-20%
Seattle: 10-20%!
Mortality from cardiac arrest
% Surviving
arrest
CPR
defibrillation
ROSC
hospital
discharge
Time
Development of chest compressions
Drs. Knickerbocker, Kouwenhoven, and Jude –
Johns Hopkins, 1950s – studied defibrillation
and chest compressions in the laboratory
Approaching 50 years of modern CPR
A
B
A. Peter Safar, 1950s
B. Early symposium on CPR
1961
Cardiac arrest: fundamentals of therapy
“Chain of Survival”
Prompt
Access
Provider
Manual
Early ACLS
Early
ACLS
(American
Association)
CPR
DefibHeart
Care
Chest compression alone CPR
Dispatch-assisted CPR and AED use
If someone calls 911 and doesn’t know CPR
or how to use an AED, the dispatcher can
coach them on the spot
Growing concept across the US
Recent publication from the American Heart Association,
endorsing the use of dispatch 911 CPR instructions:
Is patient conscious?
“no”
Is patient breathing normally?
Sample algorithm
for dispatch recognition
of cardiac arrest
“no”
START CPR; INSTRUCTIONS
Lerner et al, Circulation 2012
Chest compression alone CPR
Bystander contacted 9-1-1
standard CPR (n=279)
29/279 (10.4%)
chest compression alone (n=241)
35/241 (14.6%)
Improvement due to:
? less time to train
? better CPR strategy
p=0.18
Hallstrom et al, 2000
Chest compression alone CPR: revisited
2010
Bystander contacted 9-1-1
standard CPR (n=960)
chest compression alone (n=981)
11.5%
14.4%
Survival to DC
(OR 2.9)
Blood pressure
Standard CPR vs CC alone
Time
= chest compression
Berg et al, 2001
Blood pressure
Standard CPR vs CC alone
Time
= chest compression
Berg et al, 2001
Survival to discharge, %
0
10
20
30
“No flow” / compression fraction
Christenson J et al, Circ 2009
poor survival with lowest
compression fraction in OHCA
0-20 21-40 41-60 61-80 81-100
comp fraction, %
Chest compression depth
CPP, mm Hg
40
2 inches vs 1.5 inches
32
Survival:
100%
24
16
15%
8
0
1
2
3
CPR duration, min
ICCM, 2005
Chest compression depth
CCM 2012
CPR quality and survival
2013
Rate of 90-100 may be best;
too slow or too fast may yield
worse outcomes
CPR quality and survival
2013
Deeper compressions
Favors survival; no max
Depth identified
CPR first may improve survival
Influence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation prior
to defibrillation in patients with out-of-hospital
ventricular fibrillation
24% (155/639)
30% (142/478)
p=0.04
Defib first - AHA
CPR (90 sec) first, then defib
42 months
36 months
Cobb et al, 1999
CPR first may improve survival: RCT
probability of survival
0.5
CPR first
Standard care
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
p=0.006
0
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
time from collapse, min
14
Wik et al, 2003
CPR sensing and recording defibrillator
Similar defibrillators now made by both Philips and Zoll
Actual arrest transcript: U of C, 2004
Arrest transcript
ventilations
rhythm check
ECG
compressions
ECG: v tach
ECG: v fib
shock given
Chest compression rates
Number of 30 sec segments
300
n=1626 segments
250
200
150
100
50
0
10-20
20-30 30-40 40-50 50-60 60-70 70-80 80-90 90-100 100-110 110-120 R>120
Chest compression rate (min-1)
Abella et al, 2005
Chest compression rates by survival
Mean rate, ROSC group
90 ± 17 *
Number of 30 sec segments
210
p=0.003
180
Mean rate,
no ROSC group
79 ± 18 *
150
No ROSC
ROSC
120
90
60
30
0
10-20
20-30
30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70
70-80
80-90
90-100 100-110 110-120
Chest compression rate (min-1)
Abella et al, 2005
>120
CPR renaissance: measuring CPR
Valenzuela et al, Circ 2005
Wik et al, JAMA 2005
Abella et al, JAMA 2005
Aufderheide et al,Circ 2004
Hyperventilation during EMS resuscitation
16 seconds
v
v
v
v
v
v
v
v
v
v
mean ventilation rate: 30 ± 3.2
first group: 37 ± 4
after retraining: 22 ± 3
Aufderheide et al, 2004
Chest compression pauses before shocks
5:00
5:05
Compressions
ECG
4:55
Pause before shock
5:10
VF removed, percent
Dose-effect of pre-shock pauses
100
80
90%
60
p=0.003
64%
55%
40
20
10%
0
≤10.3
(n=10)
10.5-13.9
(n=11)
14.4-30.4
(n=11)
≥33.2
(n=10)
Pre-shock pause, seconds
Edelson et al, 2006
Possible model underlying these data
Current CPR quality: summary
1.  Slow compression rates
2.  Frequent and lengthy pauses
3.  Shallow compressions
4.  Hyperventilation
The problem with cardiac arrest
The military solution
Debriefing intervention
! 
Code review investigation:
–  All residents and students rotating through
resuscitation team roles
–  Debrief teams on their events
–  Weekly 30-45 min resuscitation debriefing/
teaching sessions
Impact of CPR feedback and debriefing
Edelson et al, 2008
Impact of CPR feedback and debriefing
Edelson et al, 2008
Impact of CPR feedback and debriefing
EMS version of the Edelson 2008 study
Performed using Zoll feedback defibrillators in Arizona
Impact of CPR feedback and debriefing
CPR in the workplace
Friday, June 13, 2008
Tim Russert, TV correspondent
Known asymptomatic coronary dz
Suffered AMI " cardiac arrest
Attempted resuscitation (CPR and defibrillation) failed
Unknown CPR quality or pre-shock pause time
CPR in the home
Friday, June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson died at home
Respiratory arrest from drug OD
Attempted resuscitation (CPR and defibrillation) failed
CPR performed in the bed – questionable quality,
pauses in performance?
Demonstration of CPR saving lives
March 17, 2012
Fabrice Muamba had cardiac
arrest while on UK football field
Was successfully revived after
prolonged CPR / resuscitation
efforts
Arrest duration was over 78 minutes
Received CPR and multiple shocks
Improving EMS care with “CC only”
Bobrow et al, 2008
Interventions:
1. Significantly delay intubation
2. 200 compressions before first shock
3. Minimize pre and post shock pauses
Tripled survival to hospital discharge (3.8% " 9.1%)
Guidelines update 2010
New directions in CPR:
Hands-only CPR – evidence
suggests mouth-to-mouth may
not be required, especially for
bystander response
New for 2010 guidelines:
A B C
Airway-Breathing-Circulation
is now
Circulation-Airway-Breathing
The key importance of CPR
Reflected in the poor impact of ACLS meds:
2009
Randomized trial of epinephrine versus no epinephrine
For EMS treated cardiac arrest " NO SURVIVAL BENEFIT!
Assessment during CPR is poor
In 2010, few options available to obtain
“output” from patients during resuscitation
Treatment
(input)
Effects
(output)
Patient receiving care
Assessment during CPR is poor
In 2010, few options available to obtain
“output” from patients during resuscitation
Treatment
(input)
Effects
(output)
Patient receiving care
antibiotics
Patient with pneumonia
Temp curve
wbc count
Progress in resuscitation inputs/outputs
AEDs
Quality
CPR
Defibrillation
Pulse check
Pulse check Pulse check
Rhythm strip
Rhythm strip Rhythm strip
Time (years)
Problem with CPR quality recording
CPR recording gives “incorrect” output:
measures provider, not patient
medication
log sheet
antibiotics
Patient with pneumonia
Temp curve
wbc count
Candidate patient-based outputs
Need methods to measure physiology
Physiologic measurement
Example
Coronary perfusion pressure
Paradis NA, 1990
Arterial pressure
Rivers EP, 1993
Cerebral oximetry
Newman DH, 2004
Blood markers
Adrie C, 2002
End-tidal CO2
Ornato, 1989
End-tidal CO2
Advantages:
non-invasive
clinically available
extensively studied
ET-CO2
CO2
expiration inspiration
Does ET-CO2 correlate with CPR quality?
Sheak et al, AHA abstract presentation 2013
Key “take home” points
1. Cardiac arrest is not hopeless!
2. CPR quality has big impact
3. Minimize ventilations
4. Maximize chest compression rate and depth
5. Consider CPR feedback tools and code
debriefing
Acknowledgements
Lance Becker
Marion Leary
Bob Neumar
Dave Gaieski
Roger Band
Brendan Carr
Barry Fuchs
Dan Kolansky
Vinay Nadkarni
Raina Merchant
Daniel Herzberg
David Fried
Emily Esposito
Raghu Seethela
CRS
Center for
Resuscitation Science