20 May 25
Resuscitation in EMS
Bystander CPR Better When More People Help
Cardiac arrest victims were more likely to receive good-quality bystander-initiated cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if multiple people assisted, researchers found.
Among cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, CPR quality was associated with multiple rescuers initiating bystander CPR (OR 2.8, 95% CI 1.5-5.6), being in a central or urban setting (OR 2.1, 95% CI 1.3-3.3), and receipt of bystander-initiated CPR (OR 2.7, 95% CI 1.1-7.3), as well as longer duration of resuscitation (OR 1.1, 95% CI 1.0-1.1), according to Hideo Inaba, MD, of the Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medicine in Japan, and colleagues.