‘Lay responders’ boost cardiac arrest survival: study

Use of a mobile app means patients are more likely to receive timely CPR or defibrillation, researchers show
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  • Medicom
  • 2 September 2021

AusDoc brings you the latest news from the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2021.

Dispatching volunteer members of the public via a smartphone app to attend a nearby out-of-hospital cardiac emergency improves survival, a large Swedish study shows.

The concept is catching on in the UK and Europe with many ‘lay-responder’ systems already in operation to send registered members of the public rushing to perform CPR or find a nearby defibrillator.

A study presented at the ESC Congress 2021 has shown that such a system leads to a 28% higher rate of survival for patients having an out-of-hospital arrest.

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