Table 2.
Time elapsed from first contact with EMDC before performance indicators are achieved. Results from before and after the implementation of an educational programme.
| Pre-intervention |
Post-intervention |
p-valuea | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time (s) (Median [Quartiles]) |
Number of patients | Time (s) (Median [Quartiles]) |
Number of patients | ||
| Dispatcher inquires about patient's consciousness | 23.5 (18,36) | 160 | 25 (20,33) | 164 | 0.679 |
| Dispatcher inquires about patient's respiration | 31 (22,47) | 179 | 31.5 (24,45) | 176 | 0.688 |
| Dispatcher recognises OHCA | 68 (43,114.5) | 172 | 56 (40,95) | 190 | 0.097 |
| First compression achieved | 148 (100.5,209.75) | 112 | 148 (107,203) | 130 | 0.918 |
Time elapsed from first telephone contact with the dispatcher and until the performance indicators were achieved – before and after adoption of the recommendations from the Resuscitation Academy and the American Heart Association
a
Wilcoxon rank-sum (Mann–Whitney) test.