Community-based intervention: Crowdsourcing help in OHCA emergencies ups survival
21 Nov 2019
byJairia Dela Cruz
A community-based intervention—which involves building a network of trained community responders, providing dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and real-time monitoring of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases via a mobile application—succeeds in enhancing community first response to OHCA, improving survival rates in areas where it was implemented, as shown in a Singapore study.