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Resuscitation by Lay Bystanders: Are We Heading in the Right Direction?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2012

H.N. Hart
Affiliation:
Municipal Health Service, Rotterdam, Netherlands
R. Slooff
Affiliation:
Municipal Health Service, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Extract

In Rotterdam with half a million inhabitants in 1974, we set up an integrated approach to pre-hospital coronary care consisting of ambulances equipped with monitoring and resuscitation equipment and staffed with specially trained nurses, who have a central role in cardiac emergencies (Figure 1). In 1979 we started a training program in cardiopulmonary resuscitation for the lay public, with training courses of three hours duration, following the Seattle model.

Type
Selected papers from the 4th World Congress on Emergency and Disaster Medicine, Brighton, United Kingdom, June, 1985
Copyright
Copyright © World Association for Disaster and Emergency Medicine 1986

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