Add to ORKGMalignant arrhythmia, which is responsible for most of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, is ventricular fibrillation (VF). The best treatment of VF is a controlled electric shock on the chest administered in a short delay. The emergency medical technicians (EMTs) qualified to carry out this treatment in Belgium and in districts often succeed in arriving on the spot 8 minutes earlier than the people of the Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation (SMUR). The delegation of defibrillation to ambulance crew members however implies a specific teaching, training and a medical control. The Brussels experience shows that semi-automatic external defibrillation by EMT-Ds (SAED) is feasible when criteria for applying SAED in the pre-hospital phas...
In the current climate of rising healthcare cost, resuscitation efforts performed outside the hospit...
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have shown to improve survival after cardiopulmonary arrest...
We describe an 8 hour training program for ambulance personnel in the management of cardiac arrest d...
Early external defibrillation is the single most effective intervention in patients with out-of-hosp...
Considering that in Brussels the first-aid ambulance team reaches the patient in cardiac arrest 10 m...
Ventricular tachyarrhythmias – Ventricular fibrillation (VF) and Ventricular tachycardia (VT) accoun...
Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of mortality in industrialized countries and is mainly d...
History Without perceptible reason, a 25-year-old man collapsed in a street carnival and needed to b...
Each year at least 300,000 people in the United States and 8000 to 10,000 people in Switzerland suff...
Sudden cardiac death is the single most important cause of death in the industrialized countries. In...
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is the main cause of sudden cardiac arrest. Because the mortality rate...
In-hospital cardiac arrest remains a major problem but new technologies allowing fully automatic ext...
Ambulance services in England attempt the resuscitation of almost 30,000 people who have experienced...
The vast majority of witnessed sudden cardiac death is due to the unpredictable occurrence of ventri...
The introduction of the automatic external defibrillator could become an important improvement in th...
In the current climate of rising healthcare cost, resuscitation efforts performed outside the hospit...
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have shown to improve survival after cardiopulmonary arrest...
We describe an 8 hour training program for ambulance personnel in the management of cardiac arrest d...
Early external defibrillation is the single most effective intervention in patients with out-of-hosp...
Considering that in Brussels the first-aid ambulance team reaches the patient in cardiac arrest 10 m...
Ventricular tachyarrhythmias – Ventricular fibrillation (VF) and Ventricular tachycardia (VT) accoun...
Cardiac arrest is one of the leading causes of mortality in industrialized countries and is mainly d...
History Without perceptible reason, a 25-year-old man collapsed in a street carnival and needed to b...
Each year at least 300,000 people in the United States and 8000 to 10,000 people in Switzerland suff...
Sudden cardiac death is the single most important cause of death in the industrialized countries. In...
Ventricular fibrillation (VF) is the main cause of sudden cardiac arrest. Because the mortality rate...
In-hospital cardiac arrest remains a major problem but new technologies allowing fully automatic ext...
Ambulance services in England attempt the resuscitation of almost 30,000 people who have experienced...
The vast majority of witnessed sudden cardiac death is due to the unpredictable occurrence of ventri...
The introduction of the automatic external defibrillator could become an important improvement in th...
In the current climate of rising healthcare cost, resuscitation efforts performed outside the hospit...
Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have shown to improve survival after cardiopulmonary arrest...
We describe an 8 hour training program for ambulance personnel in the management of cardiac arrest d...