Is debriefing bystanders of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest valuable?
Debriefing by emergency medical dispatchers to OHCA bystanders stimulates reflection, positively influencing the ability to cope with the emotional reactions and the cognitive perception of own performance and motivates improvement of CPR skills. Importantly, it increases confidence to provide CPR in the future. Implementation of telephone debriefing to bystanders at Emergency Medical Dispatch Centres is a low complexity and a low cost intervention though the logistic challenges have to be considered.
Prolonged impaired lung function after major abdominal surgery is not ameliorated by low tidal volume ventilation.