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01-07-2017 | What's New in Intensive Care
Intensive care medicine in 2050: managing cardiac arrest
Authors:
Alain Cariou, Jerry P. Nolan, Kjetil Sunde
Published in:
Intensive Care Medicine
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Issue 7/2017
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Excerpt
Survival rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) vary considerably worldwide and are highly dependent on the organization of emergency medical services (EMS), rates of bystander performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), time to first defibrillation, quality of advanced life support (ALS) and post-resuscitation care, i.e. the quality of the local chain of survival (LOS) [
1]. Health care systems that have implemented rigorous training and monitoring systems to strengthen weak links in the local LOS have arguably had the greatest impact on survival from cardiac arrest [
2]. …