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Resuscitation in out of hospital conditions and 194 to the rescue [PDF]

ABC: časopis urgentne medicine, 2014
INTRODUCTION: Cardiac arrest is the sudden and unexpected termination of blood circulation caused by functional heart failure - interruption of mechanical activity of the heart and its inability to pump out enough blood to maintain appropriate perfusion ...
Pašović Faruk, Husović Damir, Husović Aladin   +2 more
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The barriers and facilitators to initiation of telephone-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a private emergency dispatch centre in South Africa

Resuscitation Plus
Background: The incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and with it out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), is on the increase in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), like South Africa.
S. Crause, H. Slabber, E. Theron, W. Stassen   +3 more
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Identifying the Barriers to Performing Dispatcher-assisted Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest [PDF]

Health in Emergencies & Disasters Quarterly
Background: Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (BCPR) is critical for the survival of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). This study aims to identify barriers to performing dispatcher-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Roohollah Raiati, Fatemeh Khorashadizadeh, Somayeh Sadat Hosseini, Fatemeh Malekan, Ameneh Samghani, Hasan Ghodsi   +5 more
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A multifaceted intervention to increase bystander CPR rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in France: a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised, controlled trial

The Lancet Public Health
Summary: Background: Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is a key determinant of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), but rates remain suboptimal worldwide.
Guillaume Debaty, Prof, Simon Ribes, MD, Patrick Ray, Prof, Tahar Chouihed, Prof, Nicolas Desseigne, MD, Pascal Usseglio, MD, Patrice Serre, MD, Catherine Pradeau, MD, Vincent Bounes, Prof, Thierry Roupioz, MD, Anne-Sophie Lucas, MD, Didier Giolito, MD, Claude Zamour, MD, Christophe Boyer, Prof, Hervé Hubert, Prof, Dominique Savary, Prof, Karim Tazarourte, Prof, Yonathan Freund, Prof, Samuel I Watson, Prof, Karla Hemming, Prof, Lionel Lamhaut, Prof, José Labarère, Prof   +21 more
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Telephone CPR Instructions in Cardiac Arrest

, 2019
This thesis focus on developing a dataset of recordings between a caller and a dispatcher from Emergency Communication Centre during situations involving cardiac arrest. It also focused on developing and implementing a speech recognition system that would analyze 10 keywords in the dataset. One of the methods tested was to design a convolutional neural
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Cardiac arrest recognition and telephone CPR by emergency medical dispatchers

, 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 10% survival to hospital discharge.2 The chance of surviving from an OHCA is highly associated with ...
Attard Biancardi, Mark Anthony, Spiteri, Peter, Pace, Maria Pia   +2 more
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HOW to train for telephone-CPR

Trends in Anaesthesia and Critical Care, 2015
Birkenes, Tonje S., Myklebust, Helge, Hardeland, Camilla, Kramer-Johansen, Jo, Hock Ong, Marcus Eng, Shin, Sang Do, Panczyk, Micah, Bobrow, Bentley J.   +7 more
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Dispatcher nurses’ experiences of handling drones equipped with automated external defibrillators in suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - a qualitative study

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Background Reducing the time to treatment by means of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and defibrillation is essential to increasing survival after cardiac arrest. A novel method of dispatching drones for delivery of automated external defibrillators (
Dalby-Pedersen Hanna, Bergström Erika, Berglund Ellinor, Schierbeck Sofia, Svensson Leif, Nord Anette, Hollenberg Jacob, Claesson Andreas   +7 more
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Effect of National Implementation of Telephone CPR Program to Improve Outcomes from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: an Interrupted Time-Series Analysis. [PDF]

J Korean Med Sci, 2018
Lee YJ, Hwang SS, Shin SD, Lee SC, Song KJ.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Video livestreaming from medical emergency callers’ smartphones to emergency medical dispatch centres: a scoping review of current uses, opportunities, and challenges

BMC Emergency Medicine
Background Timely dispatch of appropriate emergency medical services (EMS) resources to the scene of medical incidents, and/or provision of treatment at the scene by bystanders and medical emergency lay callers (referred to as ‘callers’ in this review ...
Carin Magnusson, Lucie Ollis, Scott Munro, Jill Maben, Anthony Coe, Oliver Fitzgerald, Cath Taylor   +6 more
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