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Thesis
An Assessment of Prehospital Defibrillation in Whitman County
Washington State University
Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
05/1996
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/3929
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical application of the automatic external defibrillator (AED) as a device that assists the rural emergency medical technician (EMT) when evaluating and treating patients with symptoms of cardiac arrest or chest pain within Whitman County. Data were gathered from each community with a AED greater than one year to determine if there was a relationship between relevant time intervals, frequency of AED use and patient outcomes. Survey data were obtained from existing medical incident reports using the prehospital defibrillation collection tool. The information was recorded by the investigator in such a manner that the subjects could not be identified, directly or through identifiers linked to the subjects. Patients experiencing cardiac arrest with ventricular fibrillation or ventricular tachycardia as the presenting rhythm had further data analysis conducted utilizing the Utstein template. This method provides a uniform method of calculating an overall survival rate. The relationship between relevant time intervals, gaining access, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillation and advanced cardiac life support was established through percentages. The descriptive section of the data provided clarification and identified differences within the EMS system of Whitman County.
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- Title
- An Assessment of Prehospital Defibrillation in Whitman County
- Creators
- Dorothea Ann Chenard
- Contributors
- Renee Hoeksel (Advisor)
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Research Projects, College of Nursing
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Nursing (MN), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; Spokane, Washington
- Identifiers
- 99900590730701842
- Copyright
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us; Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 US)
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis