A system-wide approach from the community to the hospital for improving neurologic outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients

Objective: In the present study, we aimed to determine the effects of a system-wide approach from the community to the hospital in improving the neurologic outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients within Sungbuk in Korea. Methods: This study used a before–after design. In 2011, compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for citizens, a state-wide standard dispatcher assisted-CPR protocol, medical control for regional emergency medical service (EMS), provision of high-quality advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) with capnography and extracorporeal CPR, and the standard postcardiac arrest care protocol were implemented in the system-wide CPR program. CPR provision and outcomes were compared between the 2009–2010 and the 2012–2013 periods. A multivariate logistic regression model for good outcome of OHCA was used to identify interventions with a significant impact. Results: In total, 581 adult nontraumatic OHCA patients who received resuscitation attempts from 2009 to 2013 were selected for the analysis of CPR provision and outcomes. CPR provision improved significantly, as indicated by the following results from 2009–2010 to 2012–2013: from 15.9 to 50.4% for bystander CPR (P

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