Importance of "telephone cardiopulmonary resuscitation" in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in India

• Main Authors: Jyothi Venkatesan (Author), Rani Janumpally (Author), Aruna Gimkala (Author), Vimal Megavaran (Author), Helge Myklebust (Author), G V Ramana Rao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a major cause of mortality in developing countries such as India. Most cardiac arrests happen outside the hospital and are associated with poor survival rates due to delay in recognition and in performing early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)....