Why the study?
Does a pre-hospital defibrillation-only protocol by ambulance officers improve survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation?
Population
231 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest presenting with ventricular fibrillation in Perth, Western…
Design
Case_series
Follow-up
28 days after discharge from hospital
Authors
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Rapid defibrillation may aid out-of-hospital VF survival; this case series leaves open whether defibrillation-only protocols match full paramedic care.
Does a pre-hospital defibrillation-only protocol by ambulance officers improve survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation?
Pre-hospital defibrillation by ambulance officers for out-of-hospital VF cardiac arrest yields survival rates comparable to full paramedic services, emphasizing the critical importance of rapid time to defibrillation.
Jacobs et al. (1990) studied this question.
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