Survival from Out-of-hospital-cardiac-arrest (OOHCA) at Different Response Time (RT) Intervals

Purpose of the study: Some argues that survival are poor if the RT are more than 12 [ [1] University of Washington School of Medicine Survive cardiac arrest. 2009 Google Scholar ] or 15 [ [2] Gold L.S. Fahrenbruch C.E. Rea T.D. Eisenberg M.S. The relationship between time to arrival of emergency medical services (EMS) and survival from out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. 2010; 81: 622-625 Abstract Full Text Full Text PDF PubMed Scopus (49) Google Scholar Steen-Hansen J.E. Favourable outcome after 26 minutes of “Compression only” resuscitation: a case report. Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med. 2010; : 19 Crossref PubMed Scopus (6) Google Scholar ] minutes. We wanted to calculate survival at different RT-intervals, and paramedic-observed-arrest, in our EMS-system where median RT exceeds 10 minutes, but the bystander CPR-rate is high.