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Mechanical Chest Compressions and Simultaneous Defibrillation vs Conventional Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - The LINC Randomized Trial

Sten Rubertsson, Erik Lindgren, David Smekal, et al JAMA, 2013, online first

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This 2589 patient, international, RCT, randomised OHCA patients to either mechanical chest compressions with the LUCAS Chest Compression System (+usual defibrillation per guidelines) or manual CPR.

They found

- well matched groups at baseline

- VF/VT was the...


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