Performance of first responders in simulated cardiac arrests*
Critical Care MedicinePublished 1 May 2005
Stephan Märsch, Franziska Tschan, Norbert K. Semmer, Martin Spychiger, Marc Breuer, Patrick Hunziker
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First responders in intensive care often failed to build a team structure that ensured timely, effective, monitored, and ongoing team activity, and self-reporting is unsuitable to reliably assess the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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First responders in intensive care often failed to build a team structure that ensured timely, effective, monitored, and ongoing team activity. The early availability of a physician increased the number of countershocks administered. Self-reporting is unsuitable to reliably assess the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
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