Emergencias
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Predicting a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome during telephone evaluation by an emergency dispatcher: the SCARE predictive scale.
Correctly identifying patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) on first contact is essential, yet emergency dispatchers currently lack a risk scale that can help predict an ACS diagnosis. Our main aim was to develop and validate such a risk scale. ⋯ The SCARE scale had good discrimination and calibration properties. The scale should be further validated in an external sample from a multicenter study before it is implemented by emergency dispatch centers.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Standard basic life support training of the European Resuscitation Council versus blended training: a randomized trial of a new teaching method.
To evaluate the immediate and 9-month results of blended versus standard training in basic life support and the use of an automatic external defibrillator (BLS/AED). ⋯ The blended training method led to better results on some skill items.