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Trends in survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm and its association with bystander resuscitation: a retrospective study

Emergency Medicine Journal

Methods We investigated four 18-month periods between 2005 and 2018. The first period was considered baseline and included patients from the randomised controlled trial ‘DEFI 2005’ The three following periods were based on the Paris Sudden Death Expertise Center Registry (France).

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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

RebelEM

Many studies suggest that increased time spent on scene correlates with worse outcomes for trauma (Stiell 2008) and all-cause incidence (Isenberg 2005) across all levels of prehospital care. PMID: 18427089 Isenberg DL, Bissell R: Does advanced life support provide benefits to patients?: 2005, 20: 265-70. Resuscitation.

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Seeing Peter Safar, and his work

Advanced Emergency Nursing from AENJ

Initiation of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation basic life support. Initiation of closed-chest cardiopulmonary resuscitation basic life support. March-April, 2005. Contains a copy of "Laws for the Navigation of Life." In Advances in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (pp.