Continued cardiopulmonary resuscitation during transport in a physician-based Emergency Medical System
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Introduction In the Capital Region of Denmark the physician-staffed Mobile Emergency Care Unit (MECU) is dispatched to all of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). OHCA is treated at the scene and patients are either successfully resuscitated at scene or resuscitation is not successful and the patient declared dead [1]. In a limited number of cases initial resuscitation is not successful and the patient is transferred to hospital with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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