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1. Public awareness and knowledge of sepsis: a cross-sectional survey of adults in Canada

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Jeanna Parsons Leigh, Rebecca Brundin-Mather, Stephana Julia Moss, Angie Nickel, Ariana Parolini, Deirdre Walsh, Blair L. Bigham, Alix J. E. Carter, Alison Fox-Robichaud, and Kirsten M. Fiest

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Sepsis, Surveys and questionnaires, Awareness, Knowledge, Critical care, Public health, Medical emergencies. Critical care. Intensive care. First aid, RC86-88.9
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Abstract Background Sepsis is a life-threatening complication of the body’s response to infection. The financial, medical, and psychological costs of sepsis to individuals and to the healthcare system are high. Most sepsis cases originate in the community, making public awareness of sepsis essential to early diagnosis and treatment. There has been no comprehensive examination of adult’s sepsis knowledge in Canada. Methods We administered an online structured survey to English- or French-literate adults in Canada. The questionnaire comprised 28 questions in three domains: awareness, knowledge, and information access. Sampling was stratified by age, sex, and geography and weighted to 2016 census data. We used descriptive statistics to summarize responses; demographic differences were tested using the Rao–Scott correction for weighted chi-squared tests and associations using multiple variable regression. Results Sixty-one percent of 3200 adults sampled had heard of sepsis. Awareness differed by respondent’s residential region, sex, education, and ethnic group (p

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2022
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2. Patients with an automatic external defibrillator applied by a bystander in a public setting have a strikingly higher frequency of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation than observed cardiac arrests in the home

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R Gray, Myron L. Weisfeldt, C Foerster, Steven C. Brooks, Blair L. Bigham, Tom P. Aufderheide, Thomas D. Rea, P. Moran, Judy Powell, Dianne L. Atkins, Laurie J. Morrison, Colleen M. Sitlani, J. P. Ornato, and L. Van Ottingham

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Secondary prevention, medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Incidence (epidemiology), Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, Ventricular tachycardia, medicine.disease, Internal medicine, Ventricular fibrillation, Poster Presentation, cardiovascular system, Bystander effect, Emergency medical services, Cardiology, Medicine, Automatic external defibrillator, business
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The overall incidence of ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) as the first recorded electrical rhythm in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest has declined from ~70% to ~25% over the past 30 years. This change has been attributed to primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease and VT/VF. We evaluated whether the incidence of VT/VF as first recorded rhythm differed by location among bystander-applied automatic external defibrillator (AED) patients and emergency medical services (EMS)-witnessed cardiac arrests.

Published
2009

3. Therapeutic hypothermia for postcardiac arrest patients: physicians are warming up to the idea

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Laurie J. Morrison, Katie N. Dainty, Damon C. Scales, Blair L. Bigham, and Steven C. Brooks

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medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Poster Presentation, Emergency medicine, Medicine, Multiple logistic regression analysis, Hypothermia, medicine.symptom, Emergency physician, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, business, Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest, Warming up
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Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves survival and neurologic recovery in resuscitated cardiac arrest patients. However, three published surveys with low response rates (

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2009
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4. Survival unchanged 5 months after implementing the 2005 American Heart Association cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care guidelines for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

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Laurie J. Morrison, Scott S. Emerson, John A Stouffer, Kent M. Koprowicz, Blair L. Bigham, Tom P. Aufderheide, Jeffrey J. Perry, Cathy Zhan, Judy Powell, Alex Kiss, Thomas D. Rea, Sheldon Cheskes, Daniel Davis, and Paul Dorian

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medicine.medical_specialty, Guideline implementation, business.industry, medicine.medical_treatment, Poster Presentation, Emergency medicine, medicine, Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium, Cardiopulmonary resuscitation, Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine, business, Intensive care medicine, Out of hospital cardiac arrest
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To improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, the American Heart Association released guidelines in 2005. We examined the effect of these guidelines on survival in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Epistry – Cardiac Arrest. We hypothesized that survival would increase after guideline implementation.

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2009
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