CPR Boards

Has anyone used a CPR board under a patient during a code instead of placing the patient on the floor? Any thoughts on them would be appreciated. Thanks!

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We have deflatable mattresses which we pull the cord on to put the patient on a hard surface (bed below them). Have used boards on the floors before. What sort of info do you need? There's not really much to it - although it's much easier than putting a patient on the floor, and much easier on our backs doing CPR!

I'm inquiring because students in CPR class I taught at a LTC facility asked me about them. I told them I would get back to them. From the product descriptions I found, it looked like an effective tool although I wasn't quite sure if a standard mattress under it affected the effectiveness of the compressions. I also liked the positioning of the head with a CPR board (since usually a cardiac arrest in a bed wouldn't warrant c-spine precautions).

Our head boards pull off and we use those for head boards. However, we do have the offical back boards on the crash cart.