Minnesota Heart Safe Communities: Are community-based initiatives increasing pre-ambulance CPR and AED use?

We examined whether recent community-based initiatives being conducted as part of the Minnesota Heart Safe (HS) Communities program increase the delivery of CPR and use of automated external defibrillators (AED) by bystanders and first responders prior to ambulance arrival.Methods: Non-EMS witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) with presumed cardiac etiology treated by a single ambulance service in 2013-2015 were studied.

Source: Resuscitation - July 31, 2017 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Lori L. Boland, Michelle B. Formanek, Kim K. Harkins, Carol L. Frazee, Jonathan W. Kamrud, Andrew C. Stevens, Charles J. Lick, Demetris Yannopoulos Tags: Short paper Source Type: research