Abstract:Background:
The American Heart Association guidelines recommend switching chest compression providers at least every 2 min depending on their fatigue during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Although the provider's heart rate is widely used as an objective indicator for detecting fatigue, the accuracy of this measure is debatable.
Objectives:
This study was designed to determine whether real-time heart rate is a measure of fatigue in compression providers.
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