The emergency medical healthcare system outside hospital varies greatly across the globe -
even within the western world. Within the last ten years, the demand for emergency medical …

Importance Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a major health problem associated with poor
outcomes. Early recognition and intervention are critical for patient survival. Bystander …

… Two reviewers (Bøtker MT and Bakke SA) conducted the searches in duplicate, and
discrepancies regarding exclusion were solved by consensus with a third reviewer (Christensen EF)…

Background Since development of the Utstein style recommendations for the uniform
reporting of cardiac arrest, increasing numbers of national and regional out-of-hospital cardiac …

Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) and noninvasive ventilation (NIV) are frequently
used inhospital for treating respiratory failure, especially in treatment of acute cardiogenic …

Background Remote ischaemic conditioning with transient ischaemia and reperfusion
applied to the arm has been shown to reduce myocardial infarct size in patients with ST-elevation …

Background— Data on long-term function of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors are
sparse. We examined return to work as a proxy of preserved function without major neurologic …

Background A criteria-based nationwide Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) system was
recently implemented in Denmark. We described the system and studied its ability to triage …

Background— Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has increased during the last decade
in Denmark. We aimed to study the impact of age on changes in survival and whether it …

Aims To evaluate whether the distance from the site of event to an invasive heart centre,
acute coronary angiography (CAG)/percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and hospital-level …