Home is Where the Heart is: The Case for Mobile Defibrillators to Improve Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival
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Hutchinson, Heather
Dicker, Bridget
Todd, Verity
Swain, Andrew
Scott, Tony
Garcia, Elena
Maessen, Sarah E
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New Zealand Medical Association
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Rapid defibrillation is vital in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) treatment. In Aotearoa New Zealand, trained responders dispatched by the 111 system (emergency medical services [EMS], Fire and Emergency New Zealand [FENZ] and dispatched first response groups) with defibrillators reach a patient in cardiac arrest an average of 8 minutes after a 111 call in urban areas and 11 minutes in rural areas. However, odds of survival drop dramatically after a delay to defibrillation of only 2 to 5 minutes after collapse.Description
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32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3201 Cardiovascular Medicine and Haematology, Heart Disease - Coronary Heart Disease, Cardiovascular, Heart Disease, 11 Medical and Health Sciences, General & Internal Medicine, 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences, 42 Health sciences
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New Zealand Medical Journal, ISSN: 0028-8446 (Print); 1175-8716 (Online), New Zealand Medical Association, 139(1635), 118-124. doi: 10.26635/6965.7430
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