Legal implications of lay use of automatic external defibrillators in non-hospital settings.
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BRIEF REVIEW Approaches to modern management of cardiac arrest
Public access defibrillation The time delay to defibrillation can be reduced by five minutes if performed by a first responder to the cardiac arrest rather than by the usual paramedic service. In a review of five controlled trials in which emergency medical technicians were taught to defibrillate, odds ratios for improved survival ranged from 3.3 to 6.9. Emergency medical technicians were taugh...
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BACKGROUND Many patients who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest will fail to receive bystander intervention (cardiopulmonary resuscitation [CPR] or defibrillation) despite widespread CPR training and the dissemination of automated external defibrillators (AEDs). We sought to investigate what factors encourage lay bystanders to initiate CPR and AED use in a cohort of bystanders previously ...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The Journal of contemporary health law and policy
دوره 17 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2000