What is Autopulse®?

Autopulse® is an electronic device designed to provide high quality chest compression to increase the likelihood of resuscitation for a person in heart arrest. In other words, it is mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) piece of medical equipment used to provide cardiac support and is sometimes referred to as a pump on heart support. The device is mainly used by emergency physicians and rescuers who work in emergency medical services (EMS) systems in which its use is defined by protocols or is allowed or required by permanent orders.

Autopulse® is used by aligning the patient on its platform and ensuring the thoracic zone over the thoracic button and pressing the start button. Emergency workers continue to provide artificial ventilation manually when using Autopulse® as well as in the case of manual chest compression. Recovery of spontaneous breathing after two minutes of CPR is the patient's pulse speed again checked and afterCash staff will also check that the sewage rhythm is present.

There is a controversy about the use of Autopulse® and other CPR mechanical devices due to the worrying results of the tests that were performed. This is part of the reason why not all EMS systems support or allow it to be used; Other reasons are related to the very high costs associated with the equipment use systems. Field tests that have been carried out show that the percentage of patients in heart arrest who survived until they were admitted to the hospital was higher when the place of manual compression of CPR AutoPULSE® was used. However, a significantly lower percentage of autopulse® patients instead of manual chest compression did not survive to release from the hospital.

and Desire to deliver high quality chest compression was not the only motivation to develop this piece of medical equipment. Delivery of hand CPR, especially in adultsThe patient is physically very demanding. If an emergency rescuer becomes exhaustion, he may not be able to perform the quality of the chest compression needed to create a strong pulse and this failure would reduce the patient's chances of resuscitation. Given the fact that there are times when the rescuer has to work separately in the back of the ambulance, some support the use of mechanical devices CPR. Others, however, strongly reject the use of this and any other medical equipment, which seems to reduce the chances of the patient to survive from the hospital and live the most common life.