A national programme for on-site defibrillation by lay people in selected high risk areas: Initial results

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1299-1302

  Davies, C S ^b   Colquhoun, Michael C ^a,c   Boyle, R ^b   Chamberlain, D A ^a,c  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Health ^*  (United Kingdom)

^c Lansdowne Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMEDICAL PERSONNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; AGED; CARDIOVERSION; FIRST AID; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARREST; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SANITATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PUBLIC FACILITIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 25144505847     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2003.032631     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Anon. Guidelines 2000 for resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. The automated external defibrillator a key link in trie chain of survival. Resuscitation 2000;46:73-6.
2. De Maio VJ, Steill IG, Wells GA, et al. Optimal defibrillation response intervals for maximum out of hospital cardiac arrest survival rates. Ann Emerg Med 2003;42:242-50.
3. Cave L, Evans L. Personal communication on behalf of the South East Ambulance Clinical Audit Group (SEACAG).
4. Valenzuela TD, Roe D, Nichol G, et al. Outcomes of rapid defibrillation by security officers after cardiac arrest in casinos. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1200-9.
5. Caffrey S, Willoughby PJ, Pepe PE, et al. Public use of automated external defibrillators. N Engl J Med 2002;347:1242-7.
6. Wassertheil J, Keane G, Fisher N, et al. Cardiac arrest at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Shrine of Remembrance using a tired response strategy: a forerunner to public access defibrillation. Resuscitation 2000;44:97-104.
7. O'Rouke M, Donaldson E. Management of ventricular fibrillation in commercial airliners. Lancet 1995;345:515-6.
8. Page RL, Joglar JA, Kowal RC, et al. Use of automated external defibrillators by a US airline. N Engl J Med 2000;343:1210-6.
9. White RD, Vukov LF, Bugliosi TF. Early defibrillation by police: initial experience with measurement of critical time intervals and patient outcome. Ann Emerg Med 1994;23:1009-13.
10. Department of Health. Saving lives: our healthier nation. London: HMSO, 1999.
11. Davies CS, Colquhoun M, Graham S, et al. Public access defibrillation: the establishment of a national scheme for England. Resuscitation 2002;52:13-21.
12. Chamberlain DA, Cummins RO, Abrahamson NS, et al. Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the 'Utstein style.' Resuscitation 1991;22:1-26.
13. Colquhoun M, Davies CS, Harris, et al. Public access defibrillation: designing a universal report form and database for a national programme. Resuscitation 2004;61:49-54.
14. Sedgewick ML, Dalziel K, Watson J, et al. The results of the second year of the Heartstart Scotland project in the Utstein style. Resuscitation 1993;26:75-88.
15. Colquhoun MC. Defibrillation by general practitioners. Resuscitation 2002;52:143-8.
16. Pell JP, Sirel JM, Marsden AK, et al. Potential impact of public access defibrillators on survival from cardiac arrest: retrospective cohort study. BMJ 2003;325:515-7.
17. Pell JP. The debate on public place defibrillators: charged but shockingly ill informed. Heart 2003;89:1375-6.
18. Colquhoun M, Davies CS, Woollard M, et al. A comparison of different strategies for public access defibrillation. 6th Congress of the European Resuscitation Council, Firenze, Italy, October 2002. Resuscitation 2002;55:115.