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How a Toilet Plunger Improved CPR

Traditional CPR doesn’t have a great track record: On average, just 7 percent of people who receive it before getting to the hospital are ultimately discharged with full brain function, according to a national registry of cardiac arrests treated by emergency medical workers in communities across the country.

The new procedure, known as neuroprotective CPR, has three components. First, a silicone plunger forces the chest up and down, not only pushing blood out to the body, but drawing it back in to refill the heart. A plastic valve fits over a face mask or breathing tube to control pressure in the lungs. The third piece is a body-positioning device...

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Articles of Interest

From a toilet plunger to head-up CPR: Bundling systemic and regional venous return augmentation to improve the hemodynamic efficacy of chest compression

Prompt generation of blood flow at levels able to reverse – or at least ameliorate – myocardial and cerebral ischemia is critical for successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Yet, conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) fails to promote more than a small fraction of the normal cardiac output and to optimally distribute such blood flow to the coronary and cerebral circuits.

Head up, mechanical and impedance device assisted CPR – does it make a difference? St Emlyn’s

This is an interesting hypothesis generating paper that reminds us that the cardiac arrest story is far from over and that there are many more trials and innovations out there that are yet to be tested and explored.

Head up, mechanical and impedance device assisted CPR – does it make a difference? St Emlyn’s

This is an interesting hypothesis generating paper that reminds us that the cardiac arrest story is far from over and that there are many more trials and innovations out there that are yet to be tested and explored.

Neuroprotective CPR by Keith Lurie at Florida EMS Webinar

This is leading edge cardiac arrest resuscitation.

New St. Paul CPR device is ‘cutting edge’ – and inspired by toilet plunger

After 25 years of clinical trials, St. Paul is among the first cities to install new CPR devices — inspired by a toilet plunger — that increase by half a patient’s one-year survival rate from cardiac arrest.

“Heart Plungers” Keep Air Flowing During CPR

More than 325,000 Americans die every year from sudden cardiac arrest, but two simple CPR devices could reduce that number...