In patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does the provision of dispatch cardiopulmonary resuscitation instructions as opposed to no instructions improve outcome: A systematic review of the literature

Resuscitation

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1490-1495

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

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Dispatcher; Heart arrest; Telephone instruction

Indexed keywords

DISPATCH RESUSCITATION INSTRUCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDICAL LITERATURE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

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

EID: 80855132680     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2011.09.004     Document Type: Review

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