Effect of Using a Cardiac Catheterization Table-Stabilizing Stick on the Quality of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory: A Simulation-Based Study

Table 1

Effect of the catheterization table-stabilizing stick on the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

	Table-stabilizing stick		Comparison
	Use	Nonuse
Compression score (Q-CPR) (%)	79.6 ± 11.4	47.7 ± 30.3	31.9 ± 32.4
Depth (mm)	47.3 ± 2.9	40.8 ± 7.2	6.5 ± 7.7
Fully released chest compressions (%)	92.1 ± 8.3	96.3 ± 3.4	-4.1 ± 9.0
Sufficiently deep chest compressions (%)	36.4 ± 21.6	19.9 ± 17.3	16.6 ± 27.7
Table travel distance (mm)	0	6.6 ± 1.9	-6.6 ± 1.9

P < 0.01 for use and nonuse of table-stabilizing stick.