Time matters but getting the basics right is key to survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Emerg Med J. 2021 Jul;38(7):569-570. doi: 10.1136/emermed-2021-211415. Epub 2021 Mar 17.

Authors

Jason E Smith^{1

2}, Caroline Leech³

Affiliations

¹ Emergency Department, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust, Plymouth, UK jasonesmith@nhs.net.
² Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, Birmingham, UK.
³ Emergency Department, University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust, Coventry, UK.

PMID: 33731421
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2021-211415

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiac arrest; chain of survival; first responders; resuscitation.

MeSH terms

Humans
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / mortality*
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / therapy
Percutaneous Coronary Intervention / statistics & numerical data
Survival Analysis
Time-to-Treatment / standards*
Time-to-Treatment / statistics & numerical data