ArticleNetherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation2019
Characteristics of a novel citizen rescue system for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Dutch province of Limburg: relation to incidence and survival.
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- Part 4: Systems of Care: 2025 American Heart Association Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Emergency Cardiovascular Care.Circulation · 2025Guideline
- 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
- 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
- Health-related quality of life one year after refractory cardiac arrest treated with conventional or extracorporeal CPR; a secondary analysis of the INCEPTION-trial.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Why not try harder to prove that a text message alert system for trained volunteers saves lives after cardiac arrest?Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2023Article
- Early modelling of the effects and healthcare costs of the Dutch citizen-rescuer system for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.PloS one · 2023Article
- Towards individualised treatment of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients: an update on technical innovations in the prehospital chain of survival.Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2022Review
- 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
- [Ethics of resuscitation and end of life decisions].Notfall & rettungsmedizin · 2021Review
- How to evaluate the impact of a citizen rescue system on survival from cardiac arrest?Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2019Article
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backgroundWe evaluated the characteristics of a novel text message system notifying citizen rescuers in cases of out-of-hospital circulatory arrest (OHCA) in the Dutch province of Limburg, including their relation to incidence and survival. METHODS AND
resultsThe study area comprised 2,153 km
conclusionIn about half of OHCAs needing resuscitation the system was activated and in approximately half of the notifications resuscitation proved to be justified. Volunteers are notified 1.3 times per year on average. Survival was related to volunteer density, suggesting that further improvement can be achieved by increasing the number of citizen rescuers.
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