Why the study?
Does public-access defibrillation by bystanders improve the number of survivors with a favorable neurologic outcome in patients with out-of-hospital ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrest?
Population
Patients with out-of-hospital ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrest
Design
Cohort
Authors
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Supports public AED programs; leaves open causal confirmation of neurologic benefit in randomized trials.
Does public-access defibrillation by bystanders improve the number of survivors with a favorable neurologic outcome in patients with out-of-hospital ventricular-fibrillation cardiac arrest?
Increased use of public-access defibrillation by bystanders is associated with improved neurologically intact survival after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest.
Kitamura et al. (2016) studied this question.
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