Home Care Providers to the Rescue: A Novel First-Responder Programme.

To describe the implementation of a novel first-responder programme in which home care providers equipped with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) were dispatched in parallel with existing emergency medical services in the event of a suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).We evaluated...

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Main Authors: Steen M Hansen, Stig Brøndum, Grethe Thomas, Susanne R Rasmussen, Birgitte Kvist, Anette Christensen, Charlotte Lyng, Jan Lindberg, Torsten L B Lauritsen, Freddy K Lippert, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Poul A Hansen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4625014?pdf=render