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Assessment of a quality improvement programme to improve telephone dispatchers’ accuracy in identifying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Resuscitation Plus, 2021
Introduction: Early recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) by the medical dispatcher is a prerequisite for an effective chain of survival, leading to rapid dispatch of emergency medical services.
Kristel Hadberg Gram, Mikkel Præst, Ole Laulund, Søren Mikkelsen   +3 more
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Going Digital – Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI): Lessons learned from a pilot study [PDF]

, 2021
In this sixth instalment of the Going Digital Series, we share our experiences of using computer-assisted telephone interviewing (CATI) software, which was researched and piloted following the outbreak of COVID-19 and the subsequent need for ...
Harris, Melissa, Pretari, Alexia
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Gender-specific differences in return-to-spontaneous circulation and outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Results of sixteen-year-state-wide initiatives

Resuscitation Plus, 2020
Aim: Several studies reported a lower proportion of laypeople cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in female victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
Angelo Auricchio, Maria Luce Caputo, Enrico Baldi, Catherine Klersy, Claudio Benvenuti, Roberto Cianella, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Tiziano Moccetti   +7 more
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Dispatcher-Assisted Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Disparity between Urban and Rural Areas

Emergency Medicine International, 2020
Object. To compare the provision and effectiveness of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DACPR) in rural and urban areas. Methods. Patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) were prospectively registered in Taichung.
Yen-Chin Chen, Shao-Hua Yu, Wei-Jen Chen, Li-Chi Huang, Chih-Yu Chen, Hong-Mo Shih   +5 more
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Cardiac arrest recognition and telephone CPR by emergency medical dispatchers [PDF]

, 2017
Emergency Medical Service (EMS) systems annually encounters about 275 000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in Europe and approximately 420,000 cases in the United States.1 Survival rates have been reported to be poor with approximately
Attard Biancardi, Mark Anthony, Pace, Maria Pia, Spiteri, Peter   +2 more
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Interventions to improve the quality of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A systematic review.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundPerforming high-quality bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) improves the clinical outcomes of victims with sudden cardiac arrest. Thus far, no systematic review has been performed to identify interventions associated with improved ...
Kuan-Yu Chen, Ying-Chih Ko, Ming-Ju Hsieh, Wen-Chu Chiang, Matthew Huei-Ming Ma   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The comparison between video-assisted and telephone DA-CPR for different components of CPR quality in 6 studies.

, 2019
The comparison between video-assisted and telephone DA-CPR for different components of CPR quality in 6 studies.
Kuan-Yu Chen (58762), Ming-Ju Hsieh (184855), Ying-Chih Ko (6331088), Matthew Huei-Ming Ma (6331091), Wen-Chu Chiang (4344364)   +4 more
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Dispatcher experiences in handling telephone CPR

, 2016
The risk of getting sudden cardiac arrest is unknown and unpredictable. Mostly, cardiac arrest incidence occurred in public places such as home, shopping mall.
Haron, Nurbaiti, Aung, Khin Thandar, Nurumal, Mohd. Said   +2 more
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Time delays and capability of elderly to activate speaker function for continuous telephone CPR [PDF]

, 2013
Background Telephone-CPR (T-CPR) can increase rate of bystander CPR as well as CPR quality. Instructions for T-CPR were developed when most callers used a land line.
Birkenes, Tonje S, Myklebust, Helge, Jo Kramer-Johansen, Tonje S Birkenes, Kramer-Johansen, Jo, Helge Myklebust   +5 more
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Association between video-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation and return of spontaneous circulation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a retrospective study

European Journal of Medical Research
Background The effect of different pre-emergency medical service bystander resuscitation strategies, particularly telephone-assisted versus video-assisted dispatcher cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), on return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) in out ...
Zhongying Xu, Qi Zhang, Liang Wang, Weiyi Tao   +3 more
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