In this section of the European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2021, key information on
the epidemiology and outcome of in and out of hospital cardiac arrest are presented. Key …

Abstract The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) has produced these Systems Saving
Lives guidelines, which are based on the 2020 International Consensus on …

Background Over the past decade Smartphone-based activation (SBA) of Community First
Responders (CFR) to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) has gained much attention and …

Background Variation 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 …

Importance Smartphone dispatch of volunteer responders to nearby out-of-hospital cardiac
arrests (OHCAs) has emerged in several emergency medical services, but no randomized …

Abstract Background In Europe, survival-rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)
vary widely between regions. Whether a system dispatching First Responders (FRs; main …

The objective of this study was to propose a methodology (1) to analyse how incidence of
OHCA is distributed throughout a study region,(2) to analyse how incidence changes over …

Sudden cardiac arrest is a global problem and is considered the third leading cause of
death in industrialized countries. Patient survival rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest …

In community first responder (CFR) systems, traditional emergency service response is
augmented by a network of trained volunteers who are dispatched via an app. A central …

In emergency response volunteer programs, volunteers in the vicinity of an emergency are
alerted via their mobile phones to the scene of the event to perform a specific task. Tasks are …