SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH AND PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATION. EXPERIENCES FROM AUSTRIA
Abstract
Experience of development of the program on application of automatic defibrillators by nonspecialists is described in case of sudden cardiac death. Social advertising has been involved, training on workplaces is done. The author marks the improvement of quality of resuscitation at two-level system: primary help is delivered by the witnesses of incident, and then experts of the first help. It is shown, that at use of the automatic external defibrillators from hospitals 40% of sudden cardiac arrest victims are discharged. In case of the automatic defibrillation in first 3 minutes after cardiac arrest the number of survivors reaches 74%.
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Fleischhackl R. SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH AND PUBLIC ACCESS DEFIBRILLATION. EXPERIENCES FROM AUSTRIA. Pacific Medical Journal. 2007;(1):81-83. (In Russ.)
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