#cardiac arrest

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The RACE-CARS trial randomly assigned 60 North Carolina counties to intervention or existing practices.
The program combined free community CPR education with dispatcher and first-responder measures.
It did not significantly improve survival with favorable brain function.

DT Editorial Team·Nov 9, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

More than 350,000 cardiac arrests occur outside U.S. hospitals each year.
About three quarters of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests occur at home.
Immediate CPR can double or triple the chance of survival, according to the American Heart Association.
The recommended early actions are to call 911, begin CPR and retrieve an AED if available.

DT Editorial Team·Oct 15, 2026·via medicalxpress.com

A computer simulation examined how quickly AEDs could reach out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in seven departments of Île-de-France, excluding central Paris.
Three strategies were compared: expanding the fixed AED network, delivering AEDs by drone, and combining both approaches.
Researchers divided the region into IRIS census units and estimated AED arrival times at the centre of each unit.
Fixed-device coverage alone would require adding 1,712 AEDs to the 1,893 already installed, a regional total of 3,605.

DT Editorial Team·Sep 26, 2026·via medicalxpress.com