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dc.contributor.authorDeakin, Charles D.
dc.contributor.authorEngland, Simon
dc.contributor.authorDiffey, Debbie
dc.date.accessioned2019-09-12T13:02:24Z
dc.date.available2019-09-12T13:02:24Z
dc.date.issued2017-05
dc.identifier.citationDeakin, C.D. and England, S. and Diffey, D., 2017. Ambulance telephone triage using 'NHS Pathways' to identify adult cardiac arrest. Heart, 103 (10), 738-744.en_US
dc.identifier.issn1468-201X
dc.identifier.issn1355-6037
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310651
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/192
dc.description.abstractBackground UK ambulance services are called to 30 000 cardiac arrests (CAs) annually where resuscitation is attempted. Correct identification by the ambulance service trebles survival by facilitating bystander-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and immediate ambulance dispatch. Identification of CA by telephone is challenging and involves algorithms to identify key features. ‘NHS Pathways’ is now used for triage by six of 12 UK ambulance services, covering a population of 20 million. With the significant improvements in survival when CA is accurately identified, it is vital that ‘NHS Pathways’ is able to identify CA correctly. Methods All ‘999’ emergency calls to South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) over a 12-month period screened by NHS Pathways v9.04 were identified. All actual or presumed CAs identified by the emergency call taker were cross-referenced with the ambulance crew’s Patient Report Form to identify all confirmed CAs. Results A total of 469 400 emergency (999) calls were received by SCAS. Of the 3119 CA identified by ambulance crew, 753 were not initially classified as CA by NHS Pathways (24.1%). Overall, sensitivity=0.759 (95% CI 0.743 to 0.773); specificity=0.986 (95% CI 0.9858 to 0.98647); and positive predictive value=26.80% (95% CI 25.88 to 27.73%). Conclusions NHS Pathways accurately identifies 75.9% of adult CAs. The remainder represents approximately 7500 treatable CAs in the UK annually where the diagnosis is missed, with significant implications for patient outcome. Further work is required to improve this first link in the chain of survival https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/103/10/738.2.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310651
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectEmergency Medical Servicesen_US
dc.subjectAmbulancesen_US
dc.subjectCardiopulmonary Resuscitationen_US
dc.subjectHeart Arresten_US
dc.subjectTelephoneen_US
dc.titleAmbulance telephone triage using 'NHS Pathways' to identify adult cardiac arresten_US
dc.typeJournal Article/Review
dc.source.journaltitleHearten_US
dcterms.dateAccepted2019-07-23
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-07-23
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refterms.dateFirstOnline2016-12
html.description.abstractBackground UK ambulance services are called to 30 000 cardiac arrests (CAs) annually where resuscitation is attempted. Correct identification by the ambulance service trebles survival by facilitating bystander-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and immediate ambulance dispatch. Identification of CA by telephone is challenging and involves algorithms to identify key features. ‘NHS Pathways’ is now used for triage by six of 12 UK ambulance services, covering a population of 20 million. With the significant improvements in survival when CA is accurately identified, it is vital that ‘NHS Pathways’ is able to identify CA correctly. Methods All ‘999’ emergency calls to South Central Ambulance Service (SCAS) over a 12-month period screened by NHS Pathways v9.04 were identified. All actual or presumed CAs identified by the emergency call taker were cross-referenced with the ambulance crew’s Patient Report Form to identify all confirmed CAs. Results A total of 469 400 emergency (999) calls were received by SCAS. Of the 3119 CA identified by ambulance crew, 753 were not initially classified as CA by NHS Pathways (24.1%). Overall, sensitivity=0.759 (95% CI 0.743 to 0.773); specificity=0.986 (95% CI 0.9858 to 0.98647); and positive predictive value=26.80% (95% CI 25.88 to 27.73%). Conclusions NHS Pathways accurately identifies 75.9% of adult CAs. The remainder represents approximately 7500 treatable CAs in the UK annually where the diagnosis is missed, with significant implications for patient outcome. Further work is required to improve this first link in the chain of survival https://heart.bmj.com/content/heartjnl/103/10/738.2.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2016-310651en_US


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