Application of mechanical cardiopulmonary resuscitation devices and their value in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A retrospective analysis of the German Resuscitation Registry

• Stephan Seewald ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Seewald, Manuel Obermaier

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Institute for Emergency Medicine and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Manuel Obermaier ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Stephan Seewald, Manuel Obermaier

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0881-4757

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• Rolf Lefering,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Institute for Research in Operative Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Witten/Herdecke, Cologne, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0141-1747

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• Andreas Bohn,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation City of Muenster, Fire Department, Muenster, Germany

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• Michael Georgieff,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

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• Claus-Martin Muth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Section of Emergency Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulm University Hospital, Ulm, Germany

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• Jan-Thorsten Gräsner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Emergency Medicine and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

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• Siobhán Masterson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Discipline of General Practice, National University of Ireland Galway, Newcastle, Galway, Ireland

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• Jens Scholz,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Kiel, Germany

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• Jan Wnent

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: wnent@reanimationsregister.de

  Affiliation Institute for Emergency Medicine and Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Schleswig-Holstein University Hospital, Campus Kiel, Kiel, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8685-858X

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