Factors impacting upon timely and adequate allocation of prehospital medical assistance and resources to cardiac arrest patients

Resuscitation

Volumn 109, Issue , 2016, Pages 56-63

  Hardeland, Camilla ^a,b   Sunde, Kjetil ^a,b   Ramsdal, Helge ^c   Hebbert, Susan R ^d   Soilammi, Linda ^b   Westmark, Fredrik ^e   Nordum, Fredrik ^b   Hansen, Andreas E ^b   Steen Hansen, Jon E ^d   Olasveengen, Theresa M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c ØSTFOLD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^d VESTFOLD HOSPITAL TRUST   (Norway)

^e Ostfold Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; cpr; dispatcher; dispatchers; emergency medical communication centre; Emergency medical dispatch; mixed methods

Indexed keywords

AMBULANCE RESPONSE TIME; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERVIEW; INTUITION; JOB EXPERIENCE; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHER; FEMALE; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESCUE PERSONNEL; RESUSCITATION; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME TO TREATMENT;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TIME-TO-TREATMENT;

EID: 84992593515     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.09.027     Document Type: Article

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