Chest Is Best™
Not all IO is clinically equal. Sternal IO delivers drugs to the heart 2-3 times faster and in higher therapeutic
concentrations than tibial IO in cardiac arrest patients. With the actual insertion of FAST1® complete within10 seconds, drugs reach the patient’s heart in under 30 seconds.
Furthermore, the insertion location allows users to effectively manage all emergency treatment, including continuous chest compressions, from a single location near the patient’s head.
How Do We Know?
A study conducted by Dr. George C. Kramer (Director, Resuscitation Research Laboratory at The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas and member of the Vidacare Scientific Advisory Board) observed that bolus sternal IO drug delivery was between 2-3 times faster than bolus tibial IO drug delivery (20 versus 50 seconds) in asystolic pigs undergoing mechanical CPR.
Dr. Kramer also observed that the dosages realized after six minutes using the tibial route were only 75% of those achieved via the sternal approach. Dr. Kramer concluded that the sternal route has advantages in both time and efficiency over the tibial route and that sternal IO drug delivery may be fully equivalent to jugular IV drug delivery.
