European Resuscitation Council Dispatch Centre Survey (EDiCeS). A survey on telephone-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation

Telephone-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation (T-CPR) provides assistance to the emergency caller. The 2010 ILCOR recommendations advocated the implementation of T-CPR to improve CPR quality. Little is known about the T-CPR implementation and its practice across Europe. Quality and implementation of T-CPR might vary among EMD organisations and dispatch centres. EDiCeS was initiated with the aim to record data from many European dispatch centres via an online survey. The main objective was to evaluate how T-CPR is processed in various European countries, with a special focus on agonal breathing and AED in the community.