Out of hospital cardiac arrest is a leading killer in the United States [
[1]
]. Although the successful use of Closed Chest Cardiac Message was first reported
in humans in the late 1800s, it was not until 1960 that medical professionals adopted
modern Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) using external cardiac compressions [
[2]
]. During the 1960s, several organizations started to teach layperson CPR, and in
the 1970s, a group from Seattle started the Medic II program to expand training of
layperson CPR [
[3]
]. Bystander CPR has been shown to more than double survival of victims of cardiac
arrest [
[4]
,
[5]
]. However, more than 50 years after being introduced to lay rescuers, bystander CPR
is not being performed on many victims of cardiac arrest.To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Article Info
Publication History
Accepted:
February 16,
2021
Received in revised form:
February 14,
2021
Received:
February 7,
2021
Publication stage
In Press Journal Pre-ProofIdentification
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