Psychological impact on dispatched local lay rescuers performing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Zijlstra, Jolande A.; Beesems, Stefanie G.; De Haan, Rob J.; Koster, Rudolph W.

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.04.028

Psychological impact on dispatched local lay rescuers performing bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Aim We studied the short-term psychological impact and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)-related symptoms in lay rescuers performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after a text message (TM)-alert for out-of-hospital-cardiac arrest, and assessed which factors contribute to a higher level …