Trial reportJournal of the American Heart Association2017
Dispatch of Firefighters and Police Officers in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Trial Using Propensity Score Analysis.
Trial report in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT02184468 (Dual Dispatch of EMS, Fire Fighters and/or Police in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Implemented in Nine Counties in Sweden - Can More Lives be Saved by Using This Method?), which is not on this map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Dual Dispatch of EMS, Fire Fighters and/or Police in Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Implemented in Nine Counties in Sweden - Can More Lives be Saved by Using This Method?
Who cites it
28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Assessment of Community Interventions for Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA network open · 2020Pooled it
- Dispatch of Firefighters and Police Officers in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Nationwide Prospective Cohort Trial Using Propensity Score Analysis.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2017Trial
- Spatial heterogeneity in risk-adjusted return of spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the urbanization-adjusted RACA model.BMC emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Knowledge, Attitudes, and Availability of Romanian Firefighter Paramedics to Adopt the Role of Community First Responders in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- [Arrival times of emergency services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest-Survival-relevant differences between federal states in Germany].Die Anaesthesiologie · 2025Article
- Smartphone-based alert of community first responders: A multinational survey to characterise contemporary systems.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- An app to keep: smartphone-based dispatch of community first responder to cardiac arrest.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Article
- Defining the terminology of first responders alerted for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by medical dispatch centres: An international consensus study on nomenclature.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Improving preparedness for time critical prehospital care: a descriptive study of the first responder system in Central Norway.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Outcome from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest managed by the pre-hospital emergency medical system in Martinique, a French Caribbean Overseas Territory.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Combinations of First Responder and Drone Delivery to Achieve 5-Minute AED Deployment in OHCA.JACC. Advances · 2024Article
- Voluntary first responders' experiences of being dispatched to suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in rural areas: an interview study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2024Article
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes when law enforcement arrives before emergency medical services.Resuscitation · 2024Article
- Implementation and use of a supraglottic airway device in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by firefighter first responders - A prospective feasibility study.Resuscitation plus · 2023Article
- Prehospital Predictors of Survival in Patients with Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Observational
- Differences in Automated External Defibrillator Types in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Treated by Police First Responders.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2023Article
- The number and level of first-contact emergency medical services crew and clinical outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with dual dispatch response.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2022Article
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- First responder systems can stay operational under pandemic conditions: results of a European survey during the COVID-19 pandemic.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022Article
- Volunteer Responders Should Not Be Overlooked During the Night.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2022Article
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15 authors at 6 institutions in 1 country.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundDispatch of basic life support-trained first responders equipped with automated external defibrillators in addition to advanced life support-trained emergency medical services personnel in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has, in some minor cohort studies, been associated with improved survival. The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between basic life support plus advanced life support response and survival in OHCA at a national level. METHODS AND
resultsThis prospective cohort study was conducted from January 1, 2012, to December 31, 2014. People who experienced OHCA in 9 Swedish counties covered by basic life support plus advanced life support response were compared with a propensity-matched contemporary control group of people who experienced OHCA in 12 counties where only emergency medical services was dispatched, providing advanced life support. Primary outcome was survival to 30 days. The analytic sample consisted of 2786 pairs (n=5572) derived from the total cohort of 7308 complete cases. The median time from emergency call to arrival of emergency medical services or first responder was 9 minutes in the intervention group versus 10 minutes in the controls (
conclusionsIn this nationwide interventional trial, using propensity score matching, dispatch of first responders in addition to emergency medical services in OHCA was associated with a moderate, but significant, increase in 30-day survival. CLINICAL
trial registrationURL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT02184468.
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