In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients, does the description of any specific symptoms to the emergency medical dispatcher improve the accuracy of the diagnosis of cardiac arrest: A systematic review of the literature

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1483-1489

  Vaillancourt, Christian ^a,b   Charette, Manya L ^b   Bohm, Katarina ^c   Dunford, James ^d   Castrén, Maaret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Diagnosis; Emergency medical dispatcher; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Recognition

Indexed keywords

BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSCIOUSNESS LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHER; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEIZURE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 80855131481     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.05.020     Document Type: Review

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