RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 43 Global resuscitation alliance utstein recommendations for developing emergency medical services systems to improve cardiac arrest survival
JF BMJ Open
JO BMJ Open
FD British Medical Journal Publishing Group
SP A16
OP A17
DO 10.1136/bmjopen-2018-EMS.43
VO 8
IS Suppl 1
A1 N Gayathri
A1 L Tiah
A1 AFW Ho
A1 A Ajaz
A1 HM Ohn
A1 KD Wong
A1 LA Wallis
A1 BS Leong
A1 F Lippert
A1 M Castren
A1 MHM Ma
A1 MJ El Sayed
A1 PP Pek
A1 J Overton
A1 S Perret
A1 T Hara
A1 YY Ng
A1 MEH Ong
YR 2018
UL http://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/Suppl_1/A16.2.abstract
AB Aim The Global Resuscitation Alliance (GRA) 10 steps were established in 2015 to improve survival for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA). However, these 10 steps were recommended mainly for developed Emergency Medical Services (EMS) systems and implementing these steps can be challenging for developing EMS systems. We aimed to explore barriers faced by developing EMS systems and to establish pre-requisites needed to improve survival. We also developed a framework for developing EMS systems to build their emergency response capability.Method A consensus meeting was called in Singapore on 1 st and 2nd August 2017. There were 74 participants who were key stakeholders from 26 countries including EMS directors, physicians and academics. The group was subdivided into 4 groups to represent the chain of survival- community, dispatch, ambulance and hospital, with a separate group on perinatal resuscitation. Pertinent questions were given to the group for discussion, following which their answers were presented and voted upon to reach a consensus.Results Each group’s discussion points were used to construct the modified survival framework and create 11 key statements to describe the pre-requisites for achieving the GRA 10 steps. The participants then voted on the importance and feasibility of these 11 statements as well as the GRA 10 steps.Conclusion In this paper, we propose a modified framework of survival for developing EMS systems. There are barriers for developing EMS systems to improve OHCA survival rates. These barriers may be overcome by systematic prioritisation and cost effective innovative solutions.Conflict of interest NoneFunding The consensus meeting was support by the Laerdal Foundation grant, grant no: 50 005