Results from the first 12 months of a fire first-responder program in Australia

Resuscitation

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 143-150

  Smith, K L ^a   Peeters, A ^a   McNeil, J J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ambulance response; Automatic external defibrillators; Cardiac arrest

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIRE FIGHTER; FIRST AID; HEART ARREST; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME;

AUSTRALIA; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0035018949     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0300-9572(00)00355-5     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Pathology of the heart in sudden cardiac death
2. Cardiac arrest and resuscitation: A tale of 29 cities
3. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
4. Estimating effectiveness of cardiac arrest interventions. A logistic regression survival model
5. Improving survival from sudden cardiac arrest: The 'chain of survival' concept. A statement for health professionals from the Advanced Cardiac Life Support Subcommittee and the Emergency Cardiac Care Committee, American Heart Association
6. Recent advances in defibrillation therapy
7. American Heart Association report on the second public access defibrillation conference, April 17-19, 1997
8. Cardiac arrest treated with a new automatic external defibrillator by out-of-hospital first responders
9. Impact of first-responder defibrillation in an urban emergency medical services system
10. Effect of fire department first-responder automated defibrillation
11. The effect of semi-automatic external defibrillation by emergency medical technicians on survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An observational study in urban and rural areas in Belgium
12. Use of automated external defibrillators by police officers for treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
13. EMT defibrillation does not increase survival from sudden cardiac death in a two-tiered urban-suburban EMS system
14. Seven years' experience with early defibrillation by police and paramedics in an emergency medical services system
15. Automatic external defibrillators: Changing the way we manage ventricular fibrillation
16. Stata statistical software
17. Outcome from prehospital cardiac arrest in Melbourne, Australia
18. A cumulative meta-analysis of the effectiveness of defibrillator-capable emergency medical services for victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
19. Use of an automated external defibrillator-pacemaker by ambulance staff
20. Efficacy of an automated external defibrillator in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Validation of the diagnostic algorithm and initial clinical experience in a rural environment
21. Automatic external defibrillators used by emergency medical technicians. A controlled clinical trial
22. Use of the automatic external defibrillator-pacemaker by ambulance personnel: The Stockport experience
23. Use of the automatic external defibrillator in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
24. New perspectives on rural EMT defibrillation
25. Controlled trial of automated external defibrillators in the London Ambulance Service
26. Performance of an established system of first-responder out-of-hospital defibrillation. The results of the second year of the Heratstart Scotland Project in the 'Utstein Style'
27. Early defibrillation by EMTs: The Brussels experience