ReviewScandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine2020
Description of Emergency Medical Services, treatment of cardiac arrest patients and cardiac arrest registries in Europe.
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 53 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests treated by an anaesthetist-staffed emergency medical service: a 3-year registry analysis in The Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Emergency medical services, treatment of cardiac arrest patients and cardiac arrest registries in Europe - Update on systems.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- Assessment of Emergency Medical Service (EMS) response times and operational factors in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA): a retrospective analysis.Postepy w kardiologii interwencyjnej = Advances in interventional cardiology · 2025Article
- Dispatcher-Assisted CPR in Italy: A Nationwide Survey of Current Practices and Future Challenges in Emergency Medical Communication Centers.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- EuReCa - The European Registry of Cardiac Arrest and the related studies.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Pakistan's Emergency Medical Services (EMS) system & out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest (OHCA): A narrative review of an EMS system of a low middle income country in context of OHCA.Resuscitation plus · 2024Review
- Top 5 barriers in cardiac arrest research as perceived by international early career researchers - A consensus study.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Description of the prehospital emergency healthcare system in Norway.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- How do survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest perceive their health compared to the norm population? A nationwide registry study from Norway.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Prehospital and emergency department airway management of severe penetrating trauma in Sweden during the past decade.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2023Observational
- A Motorcycle Paramedic Increases the Survival Rate of Patients after OHCA.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Article
- Does One Size Fit All? External Validation of the rCAST Score to Predict the Hospital Outcomes of Post-Cardiac Arrest Patients Receiving Targeted Temperature Management.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Rendezvous between ambulances and prehospital physicians in the Capital Region of Denmark: a descriptive study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2022Article
- International initiation and termination of resuscitation practices: Protocol of a cross-sectional survey.Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica · 2022Article
- Is Prehospital Assessment of qSOFA Parameters Associated with Earlier Targeted Sepsis Therapy? A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- External validation and insights about the calibration of the return of spontaneous circulation after cardiac arrest (RACA) score.Resuscitation plus · 2022Article
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11 authors at 8 institutions in 7 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundVariation in the incidence, survival rate and factors associated with survival after cardiac arrest in Europe is reported. Some studies have tried to fill the knowledge gap regarding the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe but were unable to identify reasons for the reported differences. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to describe European Emergency Medical Systems, particularly from the perspective of country and ambulance service characteristics, cardiac arrest identification, dispatch, treatment, and monitoring.
methodsAn online questionnaire with 51 questions about ambulance and dispatch characteristics, on-scene management of cardiac arrest and the availability and dataset in cardiac arrest registries, was sent to all national coordinators who participated in the European Registry of Cardiac Arrest studies. In addition, individual invitations were sent to the remaining European countries.
resultsParticipants from 28 European countries responded to the questionnaire. Results were combined with official information on population density. Overall, the number of Emergency Medical Service missions, level of training of personnel, availability of Helicopter Emergency Medical Services and the involvement of first responders varied across and within countries. There were similarities in team training, availability of key resuscitation equipment and permission for ongoing performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during transported. The quality of reporting to cardiac arrest registries varied, as well as the data availability in the registries.
conclusionsThroughout Europe there are important differences in Emergency Medical Service systems and the response to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Explaining these differences is complicated due to significant variation in how variables are reported to and used in registries.
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