[Series] Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: prehospital management
Sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is the most time-critical medical emergency. In the second paper of this Series on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, we considered important issues in the prehospital management of cardiac arrest. Successful resuscitation relies on a strong chain of survival with the community, dispatch centre, ambulance, and hospital working together. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation has the greatest impact on survival. If the community response does not restart the heart, resuscitation is continued by emergency medical services' staff.
Source: LANCET - Category: General Medicine Authors: Marcus Eng Hock Ong, Gavin D Perkins, Alain Cariou Tags: Series Source Type: research