On the Question Concerning the Creation of Unified Accounting Data Form “The Protocol of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation” for Mobile Teams of Emergency Medical Services

Abstract

Significant decrease in death rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) can be achieved by developing and implementing an integrated program of administrative interventions focused on improvements in the provision of the first aid and emergency medical care. However, both identification of the foreground and reasonable components of the program, and evaluation of its efficiency are impossible in the absence of reliable tools for collecting and analyzing data on epidemiology of OHCA and performance of the prehospital care system. This paper discusses the development of unified form for collecting data on cases of OHCA with attempted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), addresses the promising data form “The protocol of CPR” that is recommended by the Specialized Board on Emergency Medical Care of the Ministry of Health of Russia, and offers a set of proposals for optimizing the form with consideration for the international guidelines for uniform reporting of data from OHCA.Author declare lack of the conflicts of interests.

Keywords

• circulatory arrest
• cardiac arrest
• cardiopulmonary resuscitation
• cpr protocol
• registry
• utstein
• first aid
• emergency medical services
• epidemiology