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=Introduction= | =Introduction= | ||
Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. Survival is dependent on the characteristics of the cardiac arrest, on the patient’s medical history, and the time between the cardiac arrest en start of resuscitation. The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has dramatically increased survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.<cite>ESC</cite> | Survival of cardiac arrest continues to be very poor. In-hospital cardiac arrest has a survival to hospital discharge of 17,6% all rhythms. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has a worse surival with 10,7 survival to hospital discharge for all rhythms. Survival is dependent on the characteristics of the cardiac arrest (rhythm), on the patient’s medical history, and the time between the cardiac arrest en start of resuscitation. The introduction of the automated external defibrillator (AED) has dramatically increased survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims.<cite>ESC, Nolan1</cite> | ||
==Basic Life Support (BLS)== | ==Basic Life Support (BLS)== | ||