Sustaining improvement of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients in Japan: An observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We aimed to estimate the relationship between the promotion of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with dispatcher-assistance over time and good cerebral function after out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs).

Methods

This was a retrospective observational study, using a nationwide OHCA database in Japan. The eligible 267,193 witnessed cardiogenic OHCA patients between 2005 and 2016 were analysed. Multivariable logistic regression models were performed to estimate the effect of dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR per year. In addition, we calculated the number of patients with good cerebral function, which was attributed to dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR.

Results

Dispatcher-assisted bystander CPR was performed to 84,076 (31.5%), those without dis

SUBMITTER: Sagisaka R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244355 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature