Croydon University Hospital in London was able to successfully revive a 53-year-old man from sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) using a ZOLL AutoPulse non-invasive cardiac support pump for 3.5 hours.
The automated CPR machine performed nearly 20,000 chest compressions before the man’s pulse returned. The patient was found lying unconscious and hypothermic in temperatures of -10°C when he was taken to Croydon University Hospital, where he suffered cardiac arrest. The patient was placed on the AutoPulse, which delivered 80 compressions per minute. The AutoPulse non-invasive cardiac support pump is an automated, portable device with an easy-to-use, load-distributing LifeBand that squeezes the entire chest, improving blood flow to the heart and brain during sudden cardiac arrest (SCA). The unit is said to offer advantages over manual CPR, moving blood more consistently than human providers. It is also able to deliver highquality, uninterrupted chest compressions to maintain myocardial and cerebral perfusion. ZOLL has recently announced the completion of the international Circulation Improving Resuscitation Care (CIRC) trial when an analysis of the data by the independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) showed the load-distributing band to be equivalent to manual chest compressions. The CIRC trial compared the rates of survival to hospital discharge from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of patients treated with the load-distributing band device to those receiving manual CPR.
