We read with great interest the article by Ki Hong Kim et al. [
[1]
]., showing that, in a national retrospective cohort of 79,832 patients suffering from
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), emergency mobile services (EMS) short scene
time intervals (STI) were associated with good neurological outcomes. Despite the
quality of this study, and regarding the major importance of the subject, we would
like to discuss some points that we believe could help understand some missing links
in improvement of outcomes in OHCA.Keywords
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Article Info
Publication History
Published online: November 06, 2017
Accepted:
November 4,
2017
Received:
October 31,
2017
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