Description of Emergency Medical Services, treatment of cardiac arrest patients and cardiac arrest registries in Europe.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Variation in the incidence, survival rate and factors associated with survival after cardiac arrest in Europe is reported. Some studies have tried to fill the knowledge gap regarding the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe but were unable to identify reasons for the reported differences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe European Emergency Medical Systems, particularly from the perspective of country and ambulance service characteristics, cardiac arrest identification, dispatch, treatment, and monitoring.

Methods

An online questionnaire with 51 questions about ambulance and dispatch characteristics, on-scene management of cardiac arrest and the availability and dataset in cardiac arrest registries, was sent to all national c

SUBMITTER: Tjelmeland IBM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7569761 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature