A system for assisting with a chest compression treatment being administered to a patient. In one aspect, the system for assisting with chest compression treatment includes at least one sensor configured to measure blood flow data, one or more processors, in communication with the at least one sensor, and an output device configured to provide the output indication to the rescuer. The one or more processors are configured to perform operations including receiving the blood flow data from the at least one sensor, based on the blood flow data, generating arterial blood flow data and venous blood flow data, providing an estimation of chest compression effectiveness based on the arterial blood flow data and the venous blood flow data, the estimation being based on at least one peak comparison of arterial blood flow and venous blood flow, and generating an output indication of the estimation of chest compression effectiveness.

A medical device can include a housing, an energy storage module within the housing to store an electrical charge, and a defibrillation port to guide via electrodes the stored electrical charge to a person in need of medical assistance. The medical device can also include a processor to analyze patient physiological signal(s) that indicate heart viability. Positive measures of heart viability measures can qualify the patient for a customized treatment paradigm.

A method involving a garment which includes three active parts, which are one abdominal active part intended to surround the subject's abdomen and two lower active parts each intended to surround one of the subject's lower limbs, each of the active parts including at least one bladder fillable with a fluid so as to obtain a homogeneous positive pressure applied by the active part to the whole of the corresponding body part of the subject among the abdomen and the lower limbs. The pressure application garment includes: for each active part, at least one interface pressure sensor configured to measure a pressure at the interface between the active part and the corresponding body part of the subject while being positioned between the active part and the corresponding body part of the subject, and a control unit.

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A method for performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) includes elevating the heart of an individual to a first height relative to a lower body of the individual. The lower body may be in a substantially horizontal plane. The method may also include elevating the head of the individual to a second height relative to the lower body of the individual. The second height may be greater than the first height. The method may further include performing one or more of a type of CPR or a type of intrathoracic pressure regulation while elevating the heart and the head. The first height and the second height may be determined based on one or both of the type of CPR or the type of intrathoracic pressure regulation.

In embodiments, a CPR chest compression system includes a retention structure that can retain the patient's body, and a compression mechanism that can perform automatically CPR compressions and releases to the patient's chest. The compression mechanism can pause the performing of the CPR compressions for a short time, so that an attendant can check the patient. The CPR system also includes a user interface that can output a human-perceptible check patient prompt, to alert an attendant to check the patient during the pause. An advantage can be when the attendant checks in situations where the condition of the patient might have changed, and an adjustment is needed. Or in situations where the patient may have improved enough to where the compressions are no longer needed.

An elevation device for use in the performance of CPR includes a base, an upper support coupled with the base that elevates an individual's heart, shoulders, and head relative to horizontal, an adjustment mechanism coupled with the upper support that adjusts elevation of the upper support, a chest compression device; and a controller system. The controller primes the circulatory system by causing the chest compression device to perform chest compressions while the individual's heart, shoulders, and head are supported by the upper support at a first elevation position for a period of time. The controller causes the adjustment mechanism to adjust the elevation of the upper support to a second elevation position after the period of time has elapsed while performing chest compressions. The controller causes the chest compression device to perform chest compressions on the individual while the individual's heart, shoulders, and head are at the second elevation position.

Systems, and methods relate to a medical device receiving a treatment parameter operating point within a first operating region defined by a first set of operating points for which automatic incremental adjustment of a parameter in the current operation is permitted. In an illustrative example, incremental adjustment may use artificial intelligence based on patient feedback and sensor measurement of outcomes. Some exemplary devices may receive a request to alter the current treatment parameter operating point to a second treatment parameter operating point outside the first operating region and in a second operating region in a known safe operation zone, bounded by a known unsafe zone unavailable to the user. In the second operating region, some examples may restrict the step size of incremental adjustments requested by the user. Data may be collected for cloud-based analysis, for example, to facilitate discovery of more effective treatment protocols.

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Automated CPR systems incorporating biological feedback can include an automated compression piston system, a data acquisition system, computer systems for running various control algorithms, ventilation control systems, and/or drug delivery systems. Automated CPR systems can be used as stand-alone systems for treating patients in cardiac arrest, or they can be used to administer pretreatment to a patient prior to defibrillation.