Gupteswar Patel, Viet-Hai Phung, Ian Trueman, Julie Pattinson, Vanessa Botan, Seyed Mehrshad Parvin Hosseini, Roderick Ørner, Zahid Asghar, Murray D Smith, Elise Rowan, Robert Spaight, Jason Evans, Amanda Brewster, Pauline Mountain, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena
BACKGROUND: Community First Responder (CFR) schemes are a long-established service supplementing ambulance trusts in their local community in the United Kingdom. CFRs are community members who volunteer to respond to people with life-threatening conditions. Previous studies highlighted the motivations for becoming CFRs, their training, community (un)awareness and implications of their work on themselves and others. The practices of CFRs in prehospital care remain underexplored. Therefore, we aimed to explore real-world practice of Community First Responders and their contribution to prehospital emergency care...
February 13, 2023: Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine