Abstract
Research question The detection of single chest compressions (CCs) in defibrillator records is crucial to evaluate CPR quality parameters like longest pause duration.1 Currently, defibrillators detect CCs automatically and provide performance feedback via their proprietary software. While some manufacturers (e.g. Stryker) report the accuracy of their CC detection algorithm and allow to manually revise the automatically detected CCs to improve accuracy, others (e.g. ZOLL) do not offer this option.2 Recent works further suggest that using automatically detected CCs without revision or other open source methods is sufficient to compute quality markers.3,4 We aim to compare the accuracy of the automatic CC detection of two defibrillators. Methodology 131 defibrillator recordings from ZOLL’s X-Series devices with an applied feedback sensor and 70 recordings of Stryker’s LIFEPAK 15 devices were exported. ZOLL detects CC based on accelerometry data from its CC feedback sensor, while Stryker uses the thoracic impedance signal. Each set of recordings was annotated by a single annotator by adding missing CCs and deleting excess CCs, forming a ground truth. The results are reported as median, (10th percentile, 90th percentile) and were tested on statistical significance with a Mann-Whitney U test. Results Per case, the device by ZOLL detects in median 99.6, (97.8,99.9) % of all CCs correctly. 0.4, (0.1,2.3) % are deleted and 0.4, (0.1,2.3) % are added during the annotation process. For Stryker’s LIFEPAK 15 the respective numbers are: correctly detected: 96.7, (81.5,99.2) %, deleted: 1.8, (0.2,10.9) %, added: 3.3, (.8,18.5) %. The difference between the correctly identified CCs is significant (p<0.0001). The distribution of missing and excess CCs for all cases is shown in Figure 1. Interpretation It appears that ZOLL’s CC detection via an accelerometry based feedback sensor is more accurate than Stryker’s method using thoracic impedance. However, Stryker’s accuracy exceeds 95% as well, providing a reasonably reliable basis for CPR quality marker calculations.
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