Association Between Driving Distance From Nearest Fire Station and  Survival of Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Association Between Driving Distance From Nearest Fire Station and  Survival of Out‐of‐Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Background Firefighter first responders dispatched in parallel with emergency medical services (EMS) personnel for out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) can provide early defibrillation to improve survival. We examined whether survival following first responder defibrillation differed according to...

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Main Authors: Steen M. Hansen, Carolina Malta Hansen, Christopher B. Fordyce, Matthew E. Dupre, Lisa Monk, Clark Tyson, Christian Torp‐Pedersen, Bryan McNally, Kimberly Vellano, James Jollis, Christopher B. Granger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-11-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
driving distance
early defibrillation
firefighter
first responder
out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.008771

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