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EMS Practices for OHCA Diverge Between Black/Hispanic, White Areas
This explains at least some of the racial/ethnic gaps in survival, researchers say. Harder to pinpoint is exactly why ...
Nurse shares message on the importance of CPR and AED training after near-death experience
What you know about performing CPR could make a difference in the life of someone experiencing cardiac arrest.
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Study: Pandemic reversed OHCA survival gains, widened racial gaps
A UT Southwestern study of 500K cardiac arrest cases finds survival has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, especially in ...
Cardiac arrest survival rates fell in early years of pandemic
Survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) fell during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, with Black and ...
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Faster CPR Saves Lives: Delay Beyond 4 Minutes Reduces Survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest, Study Finds
Patients who experienced a delay of four minutes or more in initiating dispatcher-assisted CPR were significantly less likely ...
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival drops during COVID-19 with racial disparities
The study cohort included 506,419 OHCA patients served by 1,313 emergency medical service (EMS) agencies. Not only were pre-pandemic survival rates lower in majority Black/Hispanic (7.9% ...
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Resuscitation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – it’s how quickly it is done, rather than who does it
The proportion of bystanders (as opposed to emergency medical services) performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on individuals experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has ...
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California AB 1415 Aims to Expand OHCA’s Healthcare Transaction Review Authority
OHCA currently only requires select “health ... AB 1415 would not change the definition of “provider organization,” which includes medical groups consisting of at least 25 physicians.