• Jyothi Venkatesan, Rani Janumpally, Aruna Gimkala, Vimal Megavaran, Helge Myklebust, and G V Ramana Rao.
• Department of Emergency Medicine Learning Centre, GVK Emergency Management and Research Institute, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.
• Indian J Community Med. 2020 Apr 1; 45 (2): 194-198.

BackgroundOut-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of mortality in developing countries such as India. Most cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital and are associated with poor survival rates due to delay in recognition and in performing early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Community CPR training and telephone CPR (T-CPR) in the dispatch centers have been shown to increase bystander CPR rates and survival.ObjectivesThe aim of this study is to identify the significance of T-CPR in OHCA and to discuss its implementation in the health system to improve OHCA outcomes in India.Materials And MethodsA descriptive research study methodology was adopted following a literature search.ResultsThe search criterion "Cardiovascular diseases" resulted in 162, "Out-side hospital cardiac arrest" in 50; For a comprehensive overview, these publications were evaluated looking for data on T-CPR incidence, criteria for detecting OHCA by emergency medical dispatchers, sensitivity and specificity, and BCPR.ConclusionThis current research stresses the scale and seriousness of the implementation of T-CPR in OHCA in India.Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Community Medicine.

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