OHCA and early defibrillation: a review

Every year, nearly 50,000 people suffer a cardiac arrest outside hospital. Despite legislative progress, the survival rate following a cardiac arrest remains alarmingly low, at less than 10 per cent. Secours Mag, a French emergency newsmag reviews the key legislation aimed at improving the care of victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in France and examines the reasons why this survival rate remains so low.

Read the full article in French  Secours Mag website