Description of Emergency Medical Services, treatment of cardiac arrest patients and cardiac arrest registries in Europe

Abstract Background Variation in the incidence, survival rate and factors associated with survival after cardiac arrest in Europe is reported. Some studies have tried to fill the knowledge gap regarding the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe but were unable to identify reasons...

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Main Authors: Ingvild B. M. Tjelmeland, Siobhan Masterson, Johan Herlitz, Jan Wnent, Leo Bossaert, Fernando Rosell-Ortiz, Kristin Alm-Kruse, Berthold Bein, Gisela Lilja, Jan-Thorsten Gräsner, on behalf of GL2020 Epidemiology group and participating countries
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-10-01
Series:Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13049-020-00798-7