ArticleResuscitation plus2021
The lay descriptors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Western Cape province, South Africa.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effectiveness of school-based CPR training among adolescents to enhance knowledge and skills in CPR: A systematic review.Curationis · 2022Pooled it
- Multi-method approach to the development of contextual telephone triage systems.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2026Article
- Views and perceptions of advanced life support practitioners on initiating, withholding and terminating resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Emergency Medical Services of South Africa.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- A resuscitation systems analysis for South Africa: A narrative review.Resuscitation plus · 2024Review
- The understandability and quality of telephone-guided bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the Western Cape province of South Africa: A manikin-based study.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2023Article
- Can emergency dispatch communication research go deeper?Resuscitation plus · 2022Article
- The Feasibility of Using Machine Learning to Classify Calls to South African Emergency Dispatch Centres According to Prehospital Diagnosis, by Utilising Caller Descriptions of the Incident.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
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- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the city of Cape Town metropole of the Western Cape province of South Africa: a spatio-temporal analysis.Cardiovascular journal of AfricaArticle
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Abstract
introductionOut-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) is a time-sensitive emergency requiring prompt identification and emergency care to reduce morbidity and mortality. The first step in managing OHCA is rapid identification by the emergency dispatch centre. Identification of these patients remains challenging in South Africa due to multiple languages and widely differing levels of education. This study aimed to identify the key descriptors (words and phrases) of OHCA used by callers in the Western Cape when contacting the provincial Emergency Medical Services' emergency call centre. METHODOLOGY: Computer-aided dispatch data with a corresponding "
resultsA total of 729 confirmed OHCA cases were identified, of which 38 (5.2%) Afrikaans, 24 (3.3%) isiXhosa and a random sample of 50 (6.8%) English calls were transcribed. Following content analysis, five distinct categories were identified. The most prevalent categories were descriptors related to ill health (medical history and suspected diagnosis; 35.5%), level of consciousness (unresponsive; 18.6%) and cardiac activity (pulselessness and suspected death; 17.2%).
conclusionThe vast majority of callers within the Western Cape province of South Africa use consistent descriptors across languages when requesting an ambulance for OHCA. Future studies should focus on the development and validation of OHCA recognition algorithms, based on these findings.
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