Open AccessImportance of “telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation” in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in India
Author(s) -
Jyothi Venkatesan,
Rani Janumpally,
Aruna Gimkala,
Vimal Megavaran,
Helge Myklebust,
GV Ramana Rao
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of community medicine/indian journal of community medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.375
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1998-3581
pISSN - 0970-0218
DOI - 10.4103/ijcm.ijcm_223_19
Subject(s) - cardiopulmonary resuscitation , medicine , seriousness , incidence (geometry) , medical emergency , resuscitation , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , physics , optics , political science , law
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of mortality in developing countries such as India. Most cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital and are associated with poor survival rates due to delay in recognition and in performing early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Community CPR training and telephone CPR (T-CPR) in the dispatch centers have been shown to increase bystander CPR rates and survival.