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ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2024

Knowledge and barriers of out of hospital cardiac arrest bystander intervention and public access automated external defibrillator use in the Northeast of England: a cross-sectional survey study.

Rosie Dew, Michael Norton, Paul Aitken-Fell, Phil Blance, Steven Miles, Sean Potts, Scott Wilkes

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Article in Internal and emergency medicine, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Barriers and enablers to public access defibrillation - an international RAND-UCLA consensus study.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Rosie DewSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, Sciences Complex, University of Sunderland, City Campus, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK. rosie.dew@sunderland.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8428-1724
Michael NortonSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, Sciences Complex, University of Sunderland, City Campus, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK.
Paul Aitken-FellNorth East Ambulance Service, Bernicia House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY, UK.
Phil BlanceNorth East Ambulance Service, Bernicia House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY, UK.
Steven MilesNorth East Ambulance Service, Bernicia House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY, UK.
Sean PottsNorth East Ambulance Service, Bernicia House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE15 8NY, UK.
Scott WilkesSchool of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences and Wellbeing, Sciences Complex, University of Sunderland, City Campus, Chester Road, Sunderland, SR1 3SD, UK.
North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust · GBNorthumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital · GBUniversity Hospital of North Tees · GBUniversity of Sunderland · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intervention by members of the public during an out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHAC) including resuscitation attempts and accessible automated external defibrillator (AED) has been shown to improve survival. This study aimed to investigate the OHCA and AED knowledge and confidence, and barriers to intervention, of the public of North East England, UK. This study used a face-to-face cross-sectional survey on a public high street in Newcastle, UK. Participants were asked unprompted to explain what they would do when faced with an OHCA collapse. Chi-Square analysis was used to test the association of the independent variables sex and first aid trained on the participants' responses. Of the 421 participants recruited to our study, 82.9% (n = 349) reported that they would know what to do during an OHCA collapse. The most frequent OHCA action mentioned was call 999 (64.1%, n = 270/421) and 58.2% (n = 245/421) of participants reported that they would commence CPR. However, only 14.3% (n = 60/421) of participants spontaneously mentioned that they would locate an AED, while only 4.5% (n = 19/421) recounted that they would apply the AED. Just over half of participants (50.8%, n = 214/421) were first aid trained, with statistically more females (57.3%, n = 126/220) than males (43.9%,  n = 87/198) being first aiders (p = 0.01 χ

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Cardiopulmonary ResuscitationDefibrillatorsHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeOut-of-Hospital Cardiac ArrestAdultAgedCross-Sectional StudiesEnglandFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesAutomated external defibrillatorBystander interventionOut of hospital cardiac arrestPublic access defibrillatorPublic knowledge

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PMID38438629
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