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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine
Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 1/2014

Open Access 01-12-2014 | Poster presentation

An integrated resuscitation service, combining a pre - hospital physician response unit with delivery to a dedicated high-volume cardiac arrest centre, optimises survival following cardiac arrest

Author: Ceri Hunter-Dunn

Published in: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine | Special Issue 1/2014

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Excerpt

Despite recent advances in resuscitation medicine, survival rates to discharge following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remain poor. Recent data support the implementation of early critical care interventions including therapeutic hypothermia (TH) and immediate percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). We describe a pre-hospital service where early delivery of critical care interventions and the capacity to transfer these unstable patients directly to a cardiac intervention centre is available through the deployment of a specialist physician response unit (PRU). …
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Title
An integrated resuscitation service, combining a pre - hospital physician response unit with delivery to a dedicated high-volume cardiac arrest centre, optimises survival following cardiac arrest
Author
Ceri Hunter-Dunn
Publication date
01-12-2014
Publisher
BioMed Central
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-22-S1-P17

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