Acute cardiac care & resuscitationResearch article
Integrated CPR coach and compressor training improves CPR quality in a pediatric emergency department
- quality improvement study
- leveraging an existing CPR quality assurance program
Authors' conclusion
In a PED, a multimodal intervention incorporating CPR coach training, compressor training, and metronome guided feedback improved chest compression depth and rate compliance while maintaining CCF. Improvement was enhanced by an existing quality assurance program and required supplementary education and resources.
Study context
- Population
- Patients presenting in cardiac arrest to a pediatric emergency departmentincluded, of 140 total patients presented in cardiac arrest · infants 54 · children 24 · adolescents 28
- Participants
- 106 patients
- Comparison
- Before vs after a simulation-based CPR coach curriculum supplemented with compressor training and metronome guided feedback
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Median percent depth compliance, all ages
increased from
14%
increased to
61%
Further findings
Mean depth, infants
cm
- increased from
- 3.1
- increased to
- 4.4
Mean depth, children and adolescents
- Mean depth did not increase for children and adolescents, though special cause variation was observed in children
Median percent rate compliance
- increased from
- 69%
- increased to
- 80%
Consecutive encounters meeting American Heart Association's (AHA) mean rate target
- increased
Chest compression fraction (CCF)
- remained at
- 89%
Original publication
Integrated CPR coach and compressor training improves CPR quality in a pediatric emergency department. Resuscitation. Published 20 May 2026. doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2026.111141
Summarised from the published abstract; every number is checked against it