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Evaluation and comparison of the performance of emergency medical care in our communities is not possible without detailed knowledge of the different elements of the “cardiac arrest—resuscitation complex”, i.e. the demographics of the community served by the Emergency Medical Service (EMS)-system, the epidemiology of cardiac arrest, the sequential steps of the intervention process, the clinical course and final outcome of the cardiac arrest victim.
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Bossaert, L. (1992). A Survey of Emergency Medical Service Systems in Europe. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1992. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84734-9_63
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