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Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Eye of the Beholder and Emergency Medical Service.

Lorka TarnovskiPorin ŠantekIvana RožićĐivo ČučevićLuka Matej MahečićJana MarićJosip LovakovićDejana MartinićFran RašićŽarko Rašić
Published in: Open access emergency medicine : OAEM (2024)
Bystander CPR has been shown to have a significant role in achieving and maintaining ROSC until hospital admission. However, our results showed a location-dependent nature of bystanders' willingness to perform CPR as well as sex disparities in patients receiving CPR. With deficient education in basic life support in Croatia, dispatchers need to insist on and instruct bystander CPR performance.
Keyphrases
  • cardiac arrest
  • cardiopulmonary resuscitation
  • healthcare
  • emergency medical
  • emergency department
  • acute care
  • electronic health record
  • affordable care act