The impact of a high-quality basic life support police-based first responder system on outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

BACKGROUND:Laypersons' efforts to initiate basic life support (BLS) in witnessed Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) remain comparably low within western society. Therefore, in order to shorten no-flow times in cardiac arrest, several police-based first responder systems equipped with automat...

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Main Authors: Mario Krammel, Elisabeth Lobmeyr, Patrick Sulzgruber, Markus Winnisch, David Weidenauer, Michael Poppe, Philip Datler, Sebastian Zeiner, Markus Keferboeck, Jakob Eichelter, Thomas Hamp, Thomas Uray, Sebastian Schnaubelt, Alexander Nuernberger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233966