ArticleEuropean heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care2018
Factors modifying performance of a novel citizen text message alert system in improving survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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- Mobile applications enhance out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2025Pooled it
- Enhancing citizens response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review of mobile-phone systems to alert citizens as first responders.Resuscitation · 2020Pooled it
- Protocol for a parallel-group, superiority randomized controlled trial of the PulsePoint mobile application to increase bystander resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Key Features in Designing an Integrated Recall System for Dispatch in Mass Casualty Incidents; a Systematic Review.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2024Review
- Citizen Responder Activation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Time of Day and Day of Week.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
- Volunteer Responders Should Not Be Overlooked During the Night.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
- Smartphone-based dispatch of community first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - statements from an international consensus conference.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Characteristics of a novel citizen rescue system for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Dutch province of Limburg: relation to incidence and survival.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2019Article
- Changes in automated external defibrillator use and survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Nijmegen area.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2018Article
- Circumstances and causes of sudden circulatory arrests in the Dutch province of Limburg and the involvement of citizen rescuers.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2018Article
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Abstract
aimsRecently we found that the text message alert system increases survival of sudden out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The aim of the present study is to explore the contribution of the system to survival specifically in resuscitation settings with prolonged delay of start of resuscitation. METHODS AND
resultsData were used from consecutive patients resuscitated for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest during a two-year period in the Dutch province Limburg. Survival of 291 cases with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest where one or more volunteers attended (Scenario 2) was compared with survival of 131 cases with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest where no volunteers attended and only standard care was given (Scenario 1). Multivariable logistic regression models including terms for interaction between scenario and the covariate coding for resuscitation setting were used to test for effect modification. The highest impact on survival of the alert system was observed in cases of (a) witnessed arrests (odds ratio=2.25; 95% confidence interval: 1.27-4.00; p=0.005); (b) arrests that occurred in the home (odds ratio=2.28; 95% confidence interval: 1.21-4.28; p=0.011); (c) arrival of the ambulance with a delay of 7-10 min (odds ratio=2.63; 95% confidence interval: 1.09-6.35; p=0.032); and (d) arrests at evening/night (odds ratio=3.07; 95% confidence interval: 1.34-7.03; p=0.008). Due to the low sample size, p-values from tests for interaction were non-significant.
conclusionThe contribution of the alert system to survival is most substantial in cases of witnessed arrest, in the home situation, at slightly delayed arrival of the first ambulance and during the evening/night.
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