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...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2024-03-01
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Series: | Resuscitation Plus |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666520423001868 |