1156: THE BYSTANDER EFFECT: THE INFLUENCE OF KNOWN BYSTANDER CPR AND WITNESSED ARREST ON ED CPR DURATION.

Witnessed cardiac arrest and bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) are associated with improved rates of ROSC and survival to hospital discharge. These findings suggest that bystander CPR may be factored into the total resuscitation time by emergency clinicians when considering the multifactorial decision to terminate CPR. B Introduction: b Long term outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are generally poor, with global 1-month survival rates of just over 10%. [Extracted from the article]