Abstract
Background The current resuscitation guidelines state that basic life support (BLS) should be conducted in two minute cycles. This regime dictates the frequencies of medicine administration and defibrillation during advanced life support in cardiac arrests. Earlier work has shown that participants in a cardiac arrest teams lose their time perception and both overand underestimate elapsed time. We therefore investigated the best way to tell time during BLS.
Highlights
The current resuscitation guidelines state that basic life support (BLS) should be conducted in two minute cycles. This regime dictates the frequencies of medicine administration and defibrillation during advanced life support in cardiac arrests
We will here present data comparing the median time spent on one cycle from the group that was given auditory alarm (AA-group) to the median time using all other methods (AOM-group)
When using an auditory alarm the median time spent on one cycle was 121.9 [range 120.4-123.1] seconds
Summary
The current resuscitation guidelines state that basic life support (BLS) should be conducted in two minute cycles. What is the best way to tell when your two minutes are up? A randomized trial of telling time in Basic Life Support cycles of two minutes From Danish Society for Emergency Medicine: Research Symposium 2010 Roskilde, Denmark.
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