‘She's sort of breathing’: What linguistic factors determine call-taker recognition of agonal breathing in emergency calls for cardiac arrest?

‘She's sort of breathing’: What linguistic factors determine call-taker recognition of agonal breathing in emergency calls for cardiac arrest?

Background: In emergency ambulance calls, agonal breathing remains a barrier to the recognition of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and rapid dispatch. We aimed to explore whether the language used by callers to describe breathing had an impact on c...

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Main Authors: Riou, Marine, Ball, Stephen, Williams, Teresa, Whiteside, A., Cameron, P., Fatovich, D., Perkins, G., Smith, K., Bray, J., Inoue, Madoka, O'Halloran, Kay, Bailey, P., Brink, D., Finn, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier 2018
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1076949
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/59567

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