Andover, Mass., USA -- Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) has announced the results of a study confirming the benefit of using CPR sensing and recording technology to improve CPR performance. Published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, the study revealed that providing objective metrics and educational feedback to medical personnel who performed CPR on a cardiac arrest patient significantly improved ventilation rate, compression rate and depth of compression. This improvement in CPR performance in a clinical setting was associated with higher initial survival rates for cardiac arrest patients.

"Similar to post-game analysis for professional athletes, medical responders were able to learn from their past resuscitation performance and apply this knowledge to future resuscitations," said Dr. Dana Edelson, director of Clinical Research for the Emergency Resuscitation Center at the University of Chicago Medical Center, and co-investigator of the study. "The results of this study suggest that CPR performance review has broad applicability for improving resuscitation training."

Results drawn from medical professionals participating in the Resuscitation with Actual Performance Integrated Debriefing (RAPID) trials were published in the study, "Improving In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Process and Outcomes using Performance Debriefing." The Philips HeartStart MRx with Q-CPR Measurement and Feedback was used to record resuscitation performance during actual cardiac arrest events. Medical professionals then participated in weekly debriefing sessions to review transcripts from the prior week's resuscitations and analyze CPR performance including chest compression rate and depth, ventilation rate, and undesired pauses in compressions.
Only in recent years has it been possible to measure CPR performance in a clinical setting. With its data collection and review capabilities, Q-CPR allows resuscitation leaders in hospitals to use valuable feedback from actual cardiac arrest cases to supplement classroom-based training methodologies for professional responders.

The trial results demonstrate that CPR performance quality improved for study participants who received post-resuscitation feedback compared to a control group of professionals who did not receive educational intervention. Specifically, the results show that:

* During the educational intervention period, there was significant improvement on CPR performance measures, compared to the control period including:

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