How to Minimize “Hands-off Times” During Mechanical Chest Compression Device Installation

Purpose of the study: During Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) management, Advanced Life Support (ALS) teams use the Mechanical Chest Compression Device (MCCD) to take over the manual chest compression (CC). The MCCD is composed of two parts which can be installed in one or two times. We aimed to measure the Hands-off-Times (HOT) related to the installation of MCCD, depending on whether it was placed in 1 or 2 times, and retained the modality which minimized HOT.