Recognizing Sudden Cardiac Arrest May Require More Than Two Questions during Telephone Triage: Developing a Complementary Checklist

Amir Mirhaghi; Hojjat Shafaee; Javad Malekzadeh; Farzaneh Hasanzadeh

Volume 5, Issue 2 , April 2017, , Pages 104-109

Abstract
  Objective: To develop decision-support tools to identify patients experiencing sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).Methods: Eighty calls related to SCA were content analyzed, and the contextual patterns that emerged were organized into a checklist. Two researchers independently analyzed the recorded calls and ...  Read More