Strategic placement of automated external defibrillators (AEDs) for cardiac arrests in public locations and private residences.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim of our study was to determine whether businesses can be identified that rank highly for their potential to improve coverage of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) by automated external defibrillators (AEDs), both in public locations and private residences.

Methods

The cohort comprised 10,422 non-traumatic OHCAs from 2014 to 2020 in Perth, Western Australia. We ranked 115 business brands (across 5,006 facilities) for their potential to supplement coverage by the 3,068 registered public-access AEDs in Perth, while accounting for AED access hours.

Results

Registered public-access AEDs provided 100 m coverage of 23% of public-location arrests, and 4% of arrests in private residences. Of the 10 business brands ranked highest for increasing the coverage of p

SUBMITTER: Ball S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9065707 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature