Improved Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival Through the Inexpensive Optimization of an Existing Defibrillation Program
01 Jan 2017-
About: The article was published on 2017-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 355 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Defibrillation.
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TL;DR: This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees on May 7, 2004 and by theAmerican Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee on May 5, 2004.
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Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust1, University of Warwick2, University of Helsinki3, Oslo University Hospital4, University of Antwerp5, Ghent University6, Innsbruck Medical University7, Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research8, Southmead Hospital9, The Catholic University of America10, Imperial College Healthcare11, Royal United Hospital12, Imperial College London13, University of Bern14
TL;DR: This chapter contains guidance on the techniques used during the initial resuscitation of an adult cardiac arrest victim and the use of an automated external defibrillator (AED).
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TL;DR: A graphic model that describes survival from sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as a function of time intervals to critical prehospital interventions is developed and is useful in planning community EMS programs, comparing EMS systems, and showing how different arrival times within a system affect survival rate.
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TL;DR: It has been shown perhaps for the first time that the correction of cardiac arrest outside hospital is a practicable proposition and no death has occurred in transit in a fifteen-month period.
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