The barriers and facilitators to initiation of telephone-assisted bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation for patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a private emergency dispatch centre in South Africa

Background: The incidence of cardiovascular diseases, and with it out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), is on the increase in low- to middle-income countries (LMICs), like South Africa. Interventions such as mass public cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training campaigns and public access defibr...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: S. Crause, H. Slabber, E. Theron, W. Stassen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:Resuscitation Plus
Subjects:
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666520423001868