Abstract

Introduction: Pauses in chest compression (CC) delivery are common during resuscitation from cardiac arrest.1,2 Such pauses have been found to be clinically detrimental in both animal and clinical studies.3,4 There have been no published data characterizing the frequency or etiology of these pauses during actual cardiac arrest. We sought to determine the etiology, duration, and distribution of CC pauses occurring during in-hospital cardiac arrests.

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