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Hyun, Han, and Ryew: Effect of knee positions on cardiac compression variables in cardiopulmonary resuscitation of rescuer; Manikin study

Abstract

The aim of the study was to analyze the effect of knee positions on cardiac compression variables in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) using the manikin. Adult with career of CPR instructor (n=9; mean age, 27.11±6.60 years; mean heights, 177.39±4.40 cm; mean weights, 69.45±14.85 kg) participated in the experiment, and each participant performed cardiac compression from two different knee positions. Cardiac compression was 30 times per minute for each position with order of position randomized. The results obtained from variables of cardiac compression force were composed of compression velocity, elapsed time, decay rate, and loading rate in maximum and minimum medial-lateral, anterior-posterior (AP), vertical direction respectively. The above variables in 20.3 cm of knee position showed effective result than that of 50 cm of knee position, while maximum AP compression force increased. Given the often predictable setting of sports and exercise rehabilitation related with cardiac arrest, CPR relative to change of knee position were significantly associated with more efficient cardiac compression variables. These data have significant implications for health services program in fields of sports and exercise rehabilitation.

INTRODUCTION

Although regular physical activity benefits cardiovascular health (Paffenbarger et al., 1993) sport, particularly when practiced vigorously, has been frequently shown to increase the risk of dying suddenly during or shortly after exercise (Albert et al., 2000; Siscovick et al., 1984). Against the miserable results like unexpected sports-related sudden death, the recent availability of the public giving access to defibrillation is obligated to mandate a thorough understanding of this phenomenon across the public population (Capucci et al., 2002; Rea and Page, 2010).
In spite of progressive development in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), the number of death by unexpected cardiac arrest increased gradually. Therefore clinic experts on the basis of scientific background recommended the compression depth of about 4 cm, 4–5 cm, and 5 cm within velocity of 100–120 times per minute as order of an infant, young child, and adult respectively as revised guideline manual of compression depth and velocity for improvement of vital possibility for the cardiac arrest (Idris et al., 2012; Stiell et al., 2014). But autopsy against died patient after CPR disclosed fractured rib (13%–97%) and sternum (1%–43%) and pneumothorax, hemothorax, pulmonary contusion, liver laceration, fat embolism, splenic injury etc. frequently (Hellevuo et al., 2013).
Therefore chest compression should be performed on the accurate depth and velocity in vertical up-down direction and minimized asymmetric compression forward diagonal direction for decrease the risk of rib’s fracture. The CPR guidelines recommend that the rescuer’s arms should be straight, their shoulders positioned directly over the hand, and hip joints used as a fulcrum, so that the thrust of each external chest compression is straight down onto the sternum (Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care, 1992).
Rescuer should maintain on bended knees position for not only carrying out chest compression for long time but also maximizing of compression time and minimizing of lumbar pain, but CPR could be performed on various positions according to rescue situation (Foo et al., 2010). That is, quantitative and quality of CPR depends upon knee position rescuer (Chi et al., 2008), but yet quantitative data related with proper position of knee.
Adequate CPR not only creates blood flow delivering oxygen to the brain and myocardium but also increases the effectiveness of shock in patients with ventricular fibrillation (Cobb et al., 1999; Stiell et al., 2003; Wik et al., 2003). However, prevention and prediction of exercise-related cardiac arrest turns out to be difficult. Regular CPR practice on cardiac arrest patient in sports activity and daily life can prevent a sudden death and provide effective and positive guideline to those who is necessary an exercise rehabilitation.
Particularly, because of high frequency of cardiac arrest in various activity (Albert et al., 2000; Marijon et al., 2011; Paffenbarger et al., 1993; Siscovick et al., 1984), It is necessary for employee of sports and exercise rehabilitation to understand accurately on CPR characteristics and elevate the vitality and CPR practice trial (%) in situation of various cardiac arrest occurrence. Therefore the aim of the study is to analyze an effect on the chest compression force-related variables relative to positions of knee of rescuer.

MATERIALS AND METHODS

Subject

Participants was consisted of adult with career of CPR instructor (n=9; mean age, 27.11±6.60 years; mean height, 177.39± 4.40 cm; mean weight, 69.45±14.85 kg). The subjects who consented on the preliminary detail explanation on the management of individual information, experimental procedure and method etc. participated in the experiment.

Experimental procedure

Because the situations of cardiac arrest can occurs daily life at home, job, public square, various situations in addition to hospitals, practiced trials without pre-exercise at interval of every 10 min per after one’s experimental consent. Each trial was practiced randomly at 2 types of distance of 23.3±3.2 cm (each preference distance) and 50 cm between chest compression point and knee and measurement of each distance was recorded at real time (Fig. 1). And then chest compression was performed in a situation positioned practical manikin (Little Anne QCPR, Laerdal, Norway) on ground reaction force (AMTI-OR-7, Advanced Mechanical Technology Inc., Watertown, MA, USA) and with 1,000 Hz of sample rate.
Each participants performed 30 times×5 set of chest compression, and collected on monitoring to PC using Kwon GRF 2.0 (Visol, Gwangmyeong, Korea). And then 3 dimensional coordinates on ground reaction force was set up as (Fig. 1).

Definition of analysis phase

Variables of cardiac compression force were composed of compression velocity, elapsed time, maximum and minimum medial-lateral, anterior-posterior, vertical direction, decay rate, and loading rate (Fig. 2).
Cardiac compression velocity (CCV) calculated as a follow. Where TT is the total elapsed time during compression, and NR as the number of repetition to cardiac compression.
CCV=60sec/TT×NR
Then TT and NR mean total time and number of repetition (30 times).
Cardiac compression rate=peak vertical compression force-VFO/ΔtCardiac compression decay rate=VFO-PVC force/Δt
Here PVC means peak vertical compression force.
VFO means minimum value before peak vertical force occurrence.
Δt means elapsed time during the phase.

Analysis and process of data

The average and the standard deviation of the calculated variables were obtained using IBM SPSS Statistics ver. 21.0 (IBM Co., Armonk, NY, USA), and paired t-test for comparisons between two knee position (P<0.05).

RESULTS

Analyzed result of compression force variables according to knee position was as (Table 1). Knee position of 50 cm in compression velocity and elapsed time showed the faster than that of knee position of 23.3 cm. In minimum cardiac compression analyzed, position of 50 cm in medial-lateral, anterior-posterior, and vertical compression force showed higher force than that of knee position of 23.3 cm, while compression decay rate decreased.
In maximum cardiac compression analyzed, knee position of 23.3 cm in anterior-posterior, vertical compression force, and compression loading rate showed higher force than that of knee position of 50 cm, while medial-lateral compression force decreased.

DISCUSSION

A meta-analysis of 22 randomized trials of exercise-based rehabilitation after myocardial infarction in 4,554 patients showed a 20% to 25% reduction both in overall mortality and in cardiovascular mortality (O’Connor et al., 1989). Similarly, a meta-analysis of 10 trials in 4,347 patients showed that comprehensive rehabilitation had a beneficial effect on mortality, but not on the rate of recurrent myocardial infarction (Oldridge et al., 1988).
Cardiac arrest may result in high mortality by occurring or reoccurring on cardiac patient and normal person, but be improve quality of life with exercise rehabilitation program (Gassner et al., 2003). Above all, at occurring of cardiac arrest, proactive trial of CPR is very important, therefore proficient performer must more execute and understand accurately than that of CPR guideline manual on the mechanism of chest compression force particularly in case of a profession because cardiac arrest situation may be generated frequently in sport activity and exercise rehabilitation.
Considering various cardiac arrest situation, the analyzed result of chest compression variables in 2 types of chest compression point and knee position showed similar pattern with compression velocity (100–120 times/min) suggested in CPR guideline manual in case of 23.3 cm of knee position and elapsed chest compression time of 1 cycle on 30 times was near 14.97 sec.
The higher vitality in case of performing at accurate depth during chest compression reported (Hostler et al., 2011; Stiell et al., 2012; Stiell et al., 2014; Vadeboncoeur et al., 2014), and chest compression force maintained at the higher, faster level and relaxing force in 23.3 cm than that of 50 cm of knee position of this study.
While every the next chest compression must perform sufficiently to flow blood towered heart (Glatz et al., 2013; Zuercher et al., 2010), insufficient chest relaxation can result in increase of inner thorax pressure and decrease of cardiac output, and it can decrease blood of coronary and cerebral arteries (Yannopoulos et al., 2005; Zuercher et al., 2010).
That is, accurate chest compression force and relaxation must be forced to cardiac arrest patient, and these mechanism be corresponded with compression load rate and decrease rate of this study. Compression load rate and decrease rate can define as velocity of minimum and maximum compression force toward cardiac arrest patient. These variables of this study maintained 768 N of mean chest compression force and considered to be core factors that can reduce the shearing compression of anterior-posterior against medial-lateral. In contrast to the above, considering compression force against anterior-posterior showed more value in 23.3 cm, it is necessary to analyze with more specified distance between compression point and knee position to minimize the asymmetric compression force.
Thus the study suggested that 23.3-cm distance between chest compression point and knee position can maintain higher chest compression force and effective relaxation than that of the other though rescuer performs at various positions at cardiac arrest patient. The next study will be necessary to analyze the relation with not only chest compression depth of hand segment against vertical direction in 3 dimension but also application of various treatment level in anterior-posterior direction for more accurate investigation of chest compression force

Notes

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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Fig. 1
Distance between compression point and knee joint. 3D, 3-dimensional; GRF, ground reaction force.
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Fig. 2
Pattern of the ground reaction force during cardiac compression. (A) Red, medial-lateral force; green, anterior-posterior force; blue, vertical force. (B) Red, medial-lateral center of pressure (CoP); green, anterior-posterior center of pressure. (C) Torque.
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Table 1
Change of cardiac compression force variables according to the knee positions during 30 times cardiac compression
Section Cardiac compression force variables Distance between cardiac compression point and knee joint t P-value

23.3±3.2 cm 50 cm
Total Velocity (times/min) 120.31±3.10 127.54±8.30 2.446 0.026*
Elapsed time (sec) 14.97±0.39 14.16±0.92 2.396 0.029*

Minimum compression Average medial-lateral compression force (N) −2.30±10.68 −12.49±32.62 4.958 <0.001***
Average anterior-posterior compression force (N) 2.40±11.41 13.35±33.16 5.125 <0.001***
Average vertical compression force (N) 37.45±17.24 75.04±57.89 10.401 <0.001***
Average compression decay rate (N/sec) −3,246.36±586.67 −2,800.54±463.30 9.799 <0.001***

Maximum compression Average medial-lateral compression force (N) 4.434±14.32 −13.40±32.80 8.147 <0.001***
Average anterior-posterior compression force (N) −47.91±35.77 −6.63±70.69 8.560 <0.001***
Average vertical compression force (N) 768.36±91.98 687.47±68.22 11.607 <0.001***
Average compression loading rate (N/sec) 2,833.51±544.40 1,642.24±548.52 4.067 <0.001***

Values are presented as mean±standard deviation.

* P<0.05.

*** P<0.001.

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