Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Breaking down barriers: Call-taker strategies to address caller perception of inappropriateness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the emergency ambulance call
Authors' conclusion
Call-takers used a combination of linguistic features (minimal/symbolic tokens, deontics) and strategies (providing unscripted statements about the context or a rationale for CPR) to overcome barriers of perceived inappropriateness to CPR.
Study context
- Population
- Emergency ambulance calls for suspected out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with a caller-perceived inappropriateness barrier to cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) initiation or continuation
- Participants
- 31 calls
- Outcome
- Call-taker strategies to address callers' perceptions of CPR 'inappropriateness'
Methodological detailsdiscourse analysis, two-phase analysis of call recordings and transcripts
- Discourse analysis
- Two-phase analysis of call recordings and transcripts
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Call-taker strategies
Initiation barriers overcome by callers
71%
Continuation barriers overcome by callers
88%
Original publication
Breaking down barriers: Call-taker strategies to address caller perception of inappropriateness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation during the emergency ambulance call. Resuscitation. Published 9 December 2024. doi:10.
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