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74. Location of Cardiac Arrests: Implications for AED Placement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

James M. Atkins  and
Brian S. Zachariah
James M. Atkins
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Brian S. Zachariah
Affiliation:
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
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Hypothesis: First responder organizations with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) can have a larger impact on survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest than placing AEDs in large buildings.

Methods: To evaluate the impact, all cardiac arrests handled by a large urban fire department for 1994 were analyzed. Each 5.6 square mile area of the city was defined as business (Bus), high (HilRes), middle (MilRes), or low income (LoIRes) residential. For each area, the CPR rates were calculated for the number of arrests/100 ambulance dispatches, and were stratified by percent of adults over age 65.

Results: Of the 1,222 cardiac arrests, only 85 occurred in business and industrial areas, 1,041 occurred in residential areas. The downtown business district had only 77 arrests with half of those being outside of buildings or in shelters.

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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine , Volume 11 , supplement S2: Abstracts of Scientific Papers. The Twelth Annual Conference and Scientific Assembly of the National Association of EMS Physicians, 13-15 July 1996, Loews Coronado Bay Resort, San Diego, California, USA , September 1996 , pp. S47
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