Association Between Driving Distance From Nearest Fire Station and  Survival of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT: Background Firefighter first responders dispatched in parallel with emergency medical services ( EMS ) personnel for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests ( OHCA ) can provide early defibrillation to improve survival. We examined whether survival following first responder defibrillation differed according to driving distance from nearest fire station to OHCA site. Methods and Results From the CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival) registry, we identified non- EMS witnessed OHCA s of presumed cardiac cause from 2010 to 2014 in Durham, Mecklenburg, and Wake counties, North Carolina. We used logistic regression to estimate the association between calculated driving distances (≤1, 1-1.5, 1.5-2, and >2 miles) and survival to hospital discharge following first responder defibrillation com

SUBMITTER: Hansen SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6404193 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature