Access to automated external defibrillators and first responders: Associations with socioeconomic factors and income inequality at small spatial scales.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The 2021 European Resuscitation Council (ERC) guidelines recommend two automated external defibrillators (AEDs)/km² and at least 10 first responders/km². We examined 1) access to AEDs and volunteer first responders in line with these guidelines and 2) its associations with socioeconomic factors and income inequality, focusing on small spatial scales.

Method

We considered data on 776 AEDs in February 2022 and 1,173 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) including 713 OHCA with app-alerted volunteer first responders from February to September 2022 in Berlin. We fit multilevel models to analyse AED area coverage and Poisson models to examine first responder availability across 12 districts and 536 neighbourhoods.

Results

Median AED area coverag

SUBMITTER: Lee D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847933 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature