Features of Emergency Medical System calls that facilitate or inhibit Emergency Medical Dispatcher recognition that a patient is in, or at imminent risk of, cardiac arrest: A systematic mixed studies review.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

To identify and appraise evidence relating to the features of an Emergency Medicine System call interaction that enable, or inhibit, an Emergency Medical Dispatcher's recognition that a patient is in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, or at imminent risk of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Methods

All study designs were eligible for inclusion. Data sources included Medline, BNI, CINAHL, EMBASE, PubMed, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, AMED and OpenGrey. Stakeholder resources were screened and experts in resuscitation were asked to review the studies identified. Studies were appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Synthesis was completed using a segregated mixed research synthesis approach.

Results

Thirty-two studies were included in the review. Three

SUBMITTER: Kirby K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8605417 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature