im no expert but....i know if my patients spo2 is 90%+ that the body tissues are being perfused. and i know that if i have apalpable corotid pulsealong with the good spo2 that the brain is getting oxygenated blood. i also look at the 3 lead and if when i am doing compressions it looks like the patient is in a huge slow vtach that my compressions are good. all those things together along with my patiens skin color (hopefully not blue) tell me that im doing good cpr.
during a clinical, the fire department brought in a cpr....and the patients face was blue from the neck up.....that was bad cpr!!!
What do you use to guage CPR adequacy?
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im no expert but....i know if my patients spo2 is 90%+ that the body tissues are being perfused. and i know that if i have a palpable corotid pulse along with the good spo2 that the brain is getting oxygenated blood. i also look at the 3 lead and if when i am doing compressions it looks like the patient is in a huge slow vtach that my compressions are good. all those things together along with my patiens skin color (hopefully not blue) tell me that im doing good cpr.
during a clinical, the fire department brought in a cpr....and the patients face was blue from the neck up.....that was bad cpr!!!