An app to keep: smartphone-based dispatch of community first responder to cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smartphone-based alerting of community first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with enhanced survival. Community first responders are volunteers, who are dispatched by the emergency dispatch centre, if they are in close proximity to an OHCA to decrease time until first chest compression. For a community first responder system to be successful, it is essential to recruit and retain as many qualified community first responders as possible. This study evaluates the appraisal and retention rate of an app-based community first responders system over a period of 3 years.

Methods

A longitudinal study among community first responder in a rural northern Germany was conducted using an online-survey. A questionnaire (7 open questions, 22 singl

SUBMITTER: Marks T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11887373 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature