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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: The epidemiology of cardiac arrest with Katherine Pemberton and Tom Archer
Description: In this session we will examine the epidemiology of OHCA. We will look at the frequency and trends of OHCA together with the causes and risk factors. We will examine the concept of a registry of cardiac arrest and appreciation of baselines to work from. We will also look at the current mitigation strategies that are available to prevent OHCA such as policy, and Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) amongst others. We will also look at our guest's PhD (Dr Katherine Pemberton) and how that both informs the current climate and the future of how we tackle OHCA.
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