Audit of defibrillators at an urban public sector hospital

Madi, S; Motara, Feroza; Enyuma, Callistus O.A.; Laher, Abdullah E.

doi:10.1136/heartasia-2018-011065

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“…[28] Equipment Tertiary hospitals provide care for a large number of critically ill and injured patients, who often require the use of multiple electronic devices. [29] Although most critical devices have built-in back-up battery power, they are subject to various limitations that include a limited duration of power supply. Should these devices fail, healthcare staff may be required to intervene manually, thereby decreasing the availability of staff for other essential duties.…”

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‘Getting out of the dark’: Implications of load shedding on healthcare in South Africa and strategies to enhance preparedness

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‘Getting out of the dark’: Implications of load shedding on healthcare in South Africa and strategies to enhance preparedness

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Insufficient quality of public automated external defibrillator recordings in the greater Paris area, a descriptive study

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BackgroundWestern countries report a significant increase in the proportion of patients who experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) and benefit from a public automated external defibrillator (pAED) before the arrival of rescue teams. However, recordings of devices recovered after resuscitation are of variable quality. Analysis of these data may inform decisions of whether to implement an internal defibrillator for survivors, and provide useful information about the performance of pAED algorithms and the actions of bystanders.ObjectiveTo investigate the quality of the information recorded by pAEDs during OHCAs in the Paris area.MethodspAED files used for some of the 8629 OHCAs that occurred in the greater Paris area between 1 January 2017 and 31 April 2019 on the day of the arrest were collected. The presence and accuracy of 23 factors required to interpret the recording was noted, including readability of the ECG, the presence of an impedance curve and the accuracy of the date and time. The recordings were analysed to assess the diagnostic and therapeutic performance of the pAEDs used.ResultsA total of 258 patients with an OHCA received assistance from a pAED, and 182 recordings were recovered. The pAEDs were made by 12 different manufacturers. Data extraction required eight different transmission modes and 16 software programmes; recordings were of highly heterogeneous quality. Two per cent of the recordings were of such poor quality that they were not interpretable. Among the 98% remaining, only 43% included a thoracic impedance curve, 34% the intensity of the shocks delivered and 8% the patient name. The date and time were accurate in 68% and 48% of recordings, respectively. The pAEDs had 87.6% (95% CI 83.7% to 91.0%) sensitivity and 99.5% (99.5% to 99.5%) specificity for defibrillating shockable rhythms (positive predictive value 98.2% (96.4% to 99.0%), negative predictive value 96.4% (95.3% to 96.8%)). The absence of important variables prevented the analysis of approximately half of the inappropriate decisions made by pAEDs.ConclusionCollection of pAED recordings is a major challenge. Their analysis is compromised by heterogeneity and poor quality (incomplete maintenance records, patient details and logs). AED recordings are currently the most relevant resource to track pAED performance and bystander practices. The quality of these recordings needs to improve.

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Paediatric emergency medicine practice in Nigeria: a narrative review

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The practice of paediatric emergency medicine in Nigeria is still evolving, and laden with enormous challenges which contribute to adverse outcomes of childhood illnesses in emergency settings. Deaths from childhood illnesses presenting as emergencies contribute to overall child mortality rates in Nigeria. This narrative review discusses existing structures, organization, and practice of paediatric emergency in Nigeria. It highlights some of the challenges and suggests ways of surmounting them in order to reduce deaths in the children emergency units in Nigerian hospitals. Important aspects of this review include current capacity and need for capacity development, equipment needs for emergency care, quality of service in the context of inadequate healthcare funding and the need for improvement.

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Audit of defibrillators at an urban public sector hospital

Cited by 3 publications

References 21 publications

‘Getting out of the dark’: Implications of load shedding on healthcare in South Africa and strategies to enhance preparedness

‘Getting out of the dark’: Implications of load shedding on healthcare in South Africa and strategies to enhance preparedness

Insufficient quality of public automated external defibrillator recordings in the greater Paris area, a descriptive study

Paediatric emergency medicine practice in Nigeria: a narrative review

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