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Systems of Care: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Video
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Video at a Glance
- Community involvement is crucial to increasing survival rates during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
- There is a movement to train EMS dispatchers to coach lay rescuers in providing high-quality compression-only CPR. That type of CPR often means the difference between life and death for victims of cardiac arrest.
- Social media can be useful in summoning lay rescuers to an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, thus decreasing time to the first compression.
- Continuous quality improvement is required to effect meaningful change in systems of care.
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