Does Your 911 Call Center Provide CPR Instruction?

Nearly half of centers do not provide CPR instruction for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and nearly a third of these are unable to transfer calls to someone who can.

The 2010 American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Guidelines recommend that all emergency call center dispatchers be trained to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) instruction for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (Circulation 2010; 122:S685). To measure how many call centers are able to provide telephone CPR instruction, researchers surveyed 3555 of 5686 centers identified in the U.S. with valid e-mail addresses.

Nearly half (46%) of the 1924 centers that responded to the survey are unable to provide emergency medical instruction by certified dispatcher, and, of these, 31% are unable to transfer calls to a facility that can provide instruction. Of the centers that do provide CPR instruction for out-of-hospital cardiac a…

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Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD

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Speaker’s bureauAirway Management Education Center

Cheryl Lynn Horton, MD

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Speaker’s bureauAirway Management Education Center

Does Your 911 Call Center Provide CPR Instruction?

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