Improved Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival with a Comprehensive Dispatcher-Assisted CPR Program in a Developing Emergency Care System.
Pin Pin Maeve PekJasmine Yen Yin LimBenjamin Sieu-Hon LeongDesmond Ren-Hao MaoMichael Yih Chong ChiaSi Oon CheahHan Nee GanYih Yng NgLai Peng ThamShalini ArulanandamNur ShahidahXinyi LinAndrew Fu-Wah HoMarcus Eng-Hock OngPublished in: Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors (2020)
Our study showed that a simplified DA-CPR program can be successfully implemented in a developing EMS system and can contribute to higher BCPR rate and in turn, improve OHCA survival. Future studies can examine bystanders' characteristics and quality of the CPR performed to understand their impact on survival.