Collaboration between emergency physicians and citizen responders in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Citizen responder programmes dispatch volunteer citizens to initiate resuscitation in nearby out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) before the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) arrival. Little is known about the interaction between citizen responders and EMS personnel during the resuscitation attempt. In the Capital Region of Denmark, emergency physicians are dispatched to all suspected OHCAs. The aim of this study was to evaluate how emergency physicians perceived the collaboration with citizen responders during resuscitation attempts.

Method

This cross-sectional study was conducted through an online questionnaire. It included all 65 emergency physicians at Copenhagen EMS between June 9 and December 13, 2019 (catchment area 1.8 million). The questionnaire examined

SUBMITTER: Jellestad AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8330065 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature