Yesterday, I tried 5min continuous chest-compression challenge with ResusciAnn with Q-CPR of Laerdal company. This time I chose the challenge without ventilations.

Challengers have to compress the chest just between 5.0 and 6.0 cm in depth without any aids such as metronome, depth indicator and countdown timer.

If they compress either less than 5.0cm or more than 6.0cm, that’ going to be judged inappropriate. In addition, the speed and chest recoil (or leaning) are also being evaluated during the challenge.

For me, five minutes were a little bit long and demanding, actually.

The result (Photo) was not the perfect one. Even though the speed of 111/min and chest recoil were perfect, the mean depth was 6.1cm!

I just compressed 0.1cm too much for 5min on average. It’s a shame!!

I realized that doing compressions in depth between 5.0 and 6.0 cm based on 2015 CPR guideline is a kind of an artistic performance for professional healthcare providers!