Local lay rescuers with AEDs, alerted by text messages, contribute to early defibrillation in a Dutch out-of-hospital cardiac arrest dispatch system

Zijlstra, Jolande A.; Stieglis, Remy; Riedijk, Frank; Smeekes, Martin; van der Worp, Wim E.; Koster, Rudolph W.

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.07.020

Local lay rescuers with AEDs, alerted by text messages, contribute to early defibrillation in a Dutch out-of-hospital cardiac arrest dispatch system

Aim Public access defibrillation rarely reaches out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in residential areas. We developed a text message (TM) alert system, dispatching local lay rescuers (TM-responders). We analyzed the functioning of this system, focusing on response times and early defi…