Abstract:

The test system was created by adding flex and force sensors to this manikin to evaluate the results of heart massage applied on an artificial adult manikin, which has a spring that can give the chest stiffness of an adult human. This test system monitors and analyzes cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) applications performed by the automated CPR device or manually by the person. The signals received from the sensor are transferred to the computer via the serial port with the Arduino Uno card and displayed in real-time in MATLAB graphical user interface (GUI). This GUI, designed with Matlab 2021a software, analyzes the sensor signals resulting from CPR. It gives a graph of the repeats of compression per minute, the depth of each compression, and the compressions rate variable performed by the user or the automatic CPR device during the CPR application. This created test system can evaluate the accuracy of both the automatic CPR device performed in this study and the manual CPR application. The test system designed in this respect can be used in the training and evaluation of cardiac massage applications, which is included in the first aid courses in secondary education, associate degree, undergraduate, and vocational education courses.

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