Recognising out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during emergency calls increases bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation and survival

Resuscitation

Volumn 115, Issue , 2017, Pages 141-147

  Viereck, Søren ^a   Møller, Thea Palsgaard ^a   Ersbøll, Annette Kjær ^b   Bækgaard, Josefine Stokholm ^a   Claesson, Andreas ^c   Hollenberg, Jacob ^c   Folke, Fredrik ^a   Lippert, Freddy K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Medical dispatch; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING; DEFIBRILLATION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY MEDICAL DISPATCHER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SURVIVAL; DENMARK; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DENMARK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; REGISTRIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85018475569     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2017.04.006     Document Type: Article

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