A survey of first-responder firefighters' attitudes, opinions, and concerns about their automated external defibrillator program

Prehospital Emergency Care

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 120-124

  Lerner, E Brooke ^a,b   Hinchey, Paul R ^a,c   Billittier, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated external defibrillators; Electric countershock; Emergency medical services; Firefighters; Heart arrest

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEFIBRILLATOR; EXPERIENCE; FIRE FIGHTER; FIRST AID; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ARREST; REVIEW;

EID: 0037231739     PISSN: 10903127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10903120390937229     Document Type: Review

References (18)

1. Herlitz J, Bang A, Ekstrom S, et al. A comparison between patients suffering in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in terms of treatment and outcome. J Intern Med. 2000; 248:53-60.
2. Eisenberg MS, Copass MK, Hallstrom AP, et al. Treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with rapid defibrillation by emergency medial technicians. N Engl J Med. 1980;302:1379-83.
3. Stults KR, Brown DD, Schug VL, Bean JA. Prehospital defibrillation performed by emergency medical technicians in rural communities. N Engl J Med. 1984; 310:219-23.
4. Vukov LF, White RD, Bachman JW, O'Brien PC. New perspectives on rural EMT defibrillation. Ann Emerg Med. 1988;17:318-21.
5. Cummins RO, Eisenberg MS, Litwin PE, Graves JR, Hearne TR, Hallstrom AP: Automatic external defibrillators used by emergency medical technicians. A controlled clinical trial. JAMA. 1987;257:1605-10.
6. Eisenberg MS. Fifty years of defibrillation. Ann Emerg Med. 1997; 30:808-10.
7. Kellermann AL, Hackman BB, Somes G, Kreth TK, Nail L, Dobyns P. Impact of first-responder defibrillation in an urban emergency medical services system. JAMA 1993;270:1708-13.
8. Shuster M, Keller JL. Effect of fire department first-responder automated defibrillation. Ann Emerg Med. 1993;22:721-7.
9. Groh WJ, Newman MM, Beal PE, Fineberg NS, Zipes DP. Limited response to cardiac arrest by police equipped with automated external defibrillators: lack of survival benefit in suburban and rural Indiana - the Police as Responder Automated Defibrillation Evaluation (PARADE). Academic Emergency Medicine 2001;8:324-30.
10. Sayre MR, Evans J, Brennnan T. Early defibrillation of cardiac arrest patients by urban police officers [abstract]. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2000;4:95.
11. Mosesso VN Jr, Davis EA, Auble TE, Paris PM, Yealy DM. Use of automated external defibrillators by police officers for treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Ann Emerg Med. 1998; 32:200-7.
12. Weaver WD, Hill D, Fahrenbruch CE, et al. Use of the automatic external defibrillator in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med, 1988; 319:661-6.
13. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Land area, population, and density for places in New York. Washington, DC, May 1996. Website: http: //www.census.gov/population/censusdata/places/36ny. txt.
14. Valenzuela TD, Roe DJ, Cretin S, Spaite DW, Larsen MP. Estimating the effectiveness of cardiac arrest interventions: a logistic regression survival model. Circulation. 1997;96:3308-13.
15. White RD, Asplin BR, Bugliosi TF, Hankins DG. High discharge survival rate after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation with rapid defibrillation by police and paramedics. Ann Emerg Med. 1996;28:480-5.
16. Weaver WD, Cobb LA, Hallstrom AP, Fahrenbruch C, Copass MK, Ray R. Factors influencing survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. J Am Coll Cardiol. 1986;7:752-7.
17. Eisenberg MS, Hallstrom AP, Copass MK, Bergner L, Short F, Pierce J. Treatment of ventricular fibrillation. Emergency medical technician defibrillation and paramedic services. JAMA. 1984;251:1723-6.
18. Auble TE, Menegazzi JJ, Paris PM. Effect of out-of-hospital defibrillation by basic life support providers on cardiac arrest mortality: a metaanalysis. Ann Emerg Med. 1995;25:642-8.