More patients could benefit from dispatch of citizen first responders to cardiac arrests

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany. Electronic address: camilla.metelmann@uni-greifswald.de.
• ² Department of Anaesthesiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany.
• ³ Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland; Fondazione Ticino Cuore, Breganzona, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Cardiocentro Ticino Institute, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Lugano, Switzerland; Fondazione Ticino Cuore, Breganzona, Switzerland; Department of Molecular Medicine, Section of Cardiology, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy; Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology and Experimental Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
• ⁵ Fondazione Ticino Cuore, Breganzona, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Swiss Resuscitation Council, Bern, Switzerland; Interverband für Rettungswesen, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ⁸ Emergency Medical Service Vienna, Vienna, Austria; PULS Austrian Cardiac Arrest Awareness Association, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁹ Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, St. Josef's Hospital, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
• ¹⁰ Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy.
• ¹¹ Amsterdam University Medical Center, Location AMC, Department of Cardiology, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹² Klinik für Anaesthesiologie, EvKB, Universitätsklinikum OWL der Universitaet Bielefeld, Campus Bielefeld-Bethel, Bielefeld, Germany.