SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST: SYSTEM SAVE LIVES

Abstract

Presented in the international conference "Socially Accessible Defibrillation and Prophylaxis of the sudden cardiac death" (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, September, 14-15, 2006). The experience of the USA in the program of development of socially accessible defibrillation and the training of non-specialists to basic resuscitation is shown. As a result of the beginning of the project the survival rate of patients after sudden cardiac arrest has increased in 3 times (from 6 up to 18%).