Sentences with phrase «percent by bystanders»

Of 1,648 defibrillated patients, 53.9 percent were defibrillated before arrival of the EMS — 6.9 percent by bystanders and 47 percent by first - responders.

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The proportion of patients who received bystander - initiated CPR and who also were defibrillated by first - responders increased from 14.1 percent in 2010, to 23.1 percent in 2013.

During the time covered in the study, Hansen said, 86.3 percent of patients received CPR before EMS arrived, with 45.7 percent initiated by bystanders and 40.6 percent by first - responders.

A team led by scientists at Duke Clinical Research Institute finds that in North Carolina from 2010 to 2013, brain damage — free survival rose from 7.1 to 9.7 percent in cardiac arrest patients — mainly due to bystanders doing chest compression before medical personnel arrived.

Separately, Japanese researchers report an 8.4 percent rate of survival without brain damage in cardiac arrest patients treated manually by bystanders from 2005 through 2012.

The researchers found that nearly 66 percent of these victims survived to hospital discharge after a shock delivered by a bystander.

However, among patients whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by a bystander, those who received either amiodarone or lidocaine during resuscitation had a 5 percent greater chance of survival to hospital discharge compared with those who received a placebo, which was a statistically significant difference.

Survival to hospital discharge among the 1,934 study participants whose cardiac arrest was witnessed by a bystander was improved from about 23 percent for those taking placebo to 28 percent for patients taking either drug, results that were statistically significant.

During the years covered by the study, slightly more than 86 percent of patients received CPR before EMS arrived, with more than 45 percent started by bystanders and more than 40 percent started by first responders.

Of these, almost 7 percent were defibrillated by bystanders and 47 percent were defibrillated by first responders.

In addition, the proportion of patients who received bystander CPR and were defibrillated by first responders increased from 14 percent in 2010 to 23 percent in 2013.