43 Time delay to contact the medical dispatch - eurocall study in romania

Conclusion There is a great variation regarding the time to contact the medical dispatcher, mainly during the night. This could be an additional time with negative influence for out of hospital cardiac arrest outcomes. Reference Nikolaou N, Castrén M, Monsieurs KG, Cimpoesu D, Georgiou M, Raffay V, Koster R, Hunyadi-Anticevi S, Truhlár A, Bossaert L, The EUROCALL investigators. Time delays to reach dispatch centres in different regions in Europe. Are we losing the window of opportunity? — The EUROCALL study. Resuscitation 2017;111:8–13. Conflict of interest None declared. Funding None declared.
Source: BMJ Open - Category: General Medicine Authors: Source Type: research