Rhythm analysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: past, present, and future
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Ruis de Gauna, S., Irusta, U., Ruiz, J. (et al) (2014) Rhythm analysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: past, present, and future. BioMed Research International, Article ID 386010 10.1155/2014/386010Abstract
Survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest depends largely on two factors: early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and early
defibrillation. CPRmust be interrupted for a reliable automated rhythmanalysis because chest compressions induce artifacts in the
ECG. Unfortunately, interrupting CPR adversely affects survival. In the last twenty years, research has been focused on designing
methods for analysis of ECG during chest compressions. Most approaches are based either on adaptive filters to remove the CPR
artifact or on robust algorithms which directly diagnose the corrupted ECG. In general, all themethods report low specificity values
when tested on short ECG segments, but how to evaluate the real impact on CPR delivery of continuous rhythm analysis during
CPR is still unknown. Recently, researchers have proposed a new methodology to measure this impact. Moreover, new strategies
for fast rhythm analysis during ventilation pauses or high-specificity algorithms have been reported. Our objective is to present a
thorough review of the field as the starting point for these late developments and to underline the open questions and future lines
of research to be explored in the following years.
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Copyright © 2014 Sofia Ruiz de Gauna et al. This is an open access article originally published in BioMed Research International, distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.