Welcome to the Recess Room podcast.

Five, four, three, two, one, fire.

So hi, and welcome back to the Recess Room podcast. I'm Simon Lang.

And I'm Rob Fenwick. Fresh back from microphone gate, everything appears to be working absolutely fine.

Thank you for mentioning it on Twitter.

It's funny how you always mention that at the beginning of a podcast and we always have to edit that out.

That is not true.

That is the sole time that I've been responsible for that problem.

There are many other problems that I've been responsible for, but we'll forget about that.

Post-production is a beautiful thing. Right. So this is all about you again.

So tell us what we're discussing today, Rob.

So today's time we're going to be having a discussion around mechanical CPR devices,

so specifically the Lucas device. So you've been looking at this in your masters, haven't you?

That is entirely correct, yep. So I've been living this subject for the last few weeks.

Specifically, we were asked to address the research question, so develop one. So using a PICO method, the research

question that I developed was this. Does mechanical CPR with the Lucas device improve mortality

over manual CPR in adults without of hospital cardiac arrest? Okay, so before we actually get down to the nitty- gritty of the evidence-based medicine, why is it actually worth thinking about it in the first place, Rob? I mean, I'm not looking to challenge your whole project, but what's the sort of context that we're thinking of using mechanical CPR in? Because we all practice ALS and obviously in ALS, there is not the mandate to use mechanical CPR.

So what's the thinking behind it?

Yeah, so that's a good question.

I mean, the simple thing was in terms of a topic, it was a topic that was really interesting

to me and it's something that I see done fairly frequently around my region, particularly

with the Lucas device.

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