There are almost 1,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) per day in the United States, with an average of only 10% of those patients surviving to hospital discharge. For a patient in cardiac arrest, every second matters, with their chance of survival decreasing by 10% for every 60 seconds CPR and AED interventions are delayed. The actions telecommunicators take can make the difference between life and death.
The standard developed by this working group will provide guidance to PSAPs on programmatic and performance benchmarks that will strengthen the Chain of Survival and telecommunicator performance, which are essential to save more lives from OHCA. Volunteers with knowledge of PSAP operations, EMD, QI, training, CPR, Resuscitation Science, and related areas are encouraged to participate. Meetings will be held via conference call at least bi-weekly on a day/time to be decided by consensus of the working group. Join here!
National Emergency Number Association