Abstract
Purpose: Early, high quality, chest compressions are a primary goal during Quick Response Team interventions, however team start-up seems to cause successive distractions from nurse initiated BLS. In 2012 we altered LUCAS-2 implementation to “a.s.a.p. placement” the 1st minutes of team tasking instead of after “optimization of manual BLS”. Our hypothesis was that early use of the LUCAS-2 could be done within 20s, in ≥95% of cases. Delays have predictable causes.
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