Implementation of crashing patient protocol and its association with EMS provider witnessed cardiac arrest incidence: a retrospective cohort study
Timothy Schiller, Stephanie Van Alsten, Joshua Mastenbrook, Michael Bentley, William Fales · 2025
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Timothy Schiller and co-authors check whether a crashing patient protocol for paramedics cut the share of cardiac arrests that happen in front of crews, in work from twenty twenty-five. Patients who keep sliding toward arrest on scene are a known risk. A set protocol aims to catch the slide early.
Registry data from one Michigan county compared the year before the protocol with its first year. Witnessed arrests fell from about thirteen percent of arrest calls to under seven percent. The drop cleared the standard bar for statistical significance. The timing lines up with the protocol launch, though the design cannot prove cause. The authors report an association and a promising direction.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Timothy Schiller, Stephanie Van Alsten, Joshua Mastenbrook, Michael Bentley, William Fales |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 14 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |