Current opinion in critical care
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Curr Opin Crit Care · Jun 2009
ReviewImproving performance of emergency medical services personnel during resuscitation of cardiac arrest patients: the McMAID approach.
The article presents the method we developed to improve emergency medical service personnel training. ⋯ It is possible to train personnel to routinely execute an organized resuscitation if the approach to training is modified.
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To discuss the concept and implementation of regionalized postcardiac arrest care. ⋯ It is feasible to implement a large system of care in which eligible postcardiac patients are triaged to centers capable of delivering standardized, state-of-the art postarrest care. Further research is warranted to determine the optimal design of such a system of care.