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Table 5 Level of agreement and level of consensus

From: Smartphone-based dispatch of community first responders to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest - statements from an international consensus conference

Consensus statements

Level of agreement

Level of consensus

CFR save lives.

Approval

High consensus

Fields of application

 CFR should be dispatched to OHCA only.

Approval

No consensus

 CFR should also be dispatched to children under the age of 8 years.

Approval

No consensus

 Persons older than 16 years should be dispatched as CFR.

Approval

No consensus

Qualifications of CFR

 Medical laypersons should also be CFR.

Approval

No consensus

 It is better to have many unqualified CFR than few but qualified CFR.

Uncertain

No consensus

 To become CFR one should know how to perform CPR.

Approval

Trend

Education/Training

 Every CFR should train CPR every 2 years.

Approval

Trend

 CFR should receive training covering organisational, legal and medical aspects.

Approval

No consensus

 Training to become CFR could be e-learning without an actual meeting.

Rejection

No consensus

 CFR should be prepared systematically for acute psychological stress.

Approval

No consensus

Role of EMS dispatch centres

 Only EMS dispatch centres should be able to dispatch CFR.

Approval

High consensus

 The software of the EMS dispatch centre should automatically recommend a CFR.

Approval

Trend

 The EMS dispatch centre should be able to contact a CFR during a mission.

Approval

Consensus

 CFR should be able to contact the EMS dispatch centre during a mission.

Approval

Consensus

 The EMS dispatch centre should be notified about the qualification of the CFR.

Uncertain

No consensus

Funding

 CFR-systems should be financed by health insurance funds.

Approval

Trend

 CFR-systems should be laid down in the social security code.

Approval

Trend

 CFR-systems should be financed on an interim basis within the federal state law.

Approval

Trend

Recruitment and Retaining CFR

 We need a nationwide strategy.

Approval

Consensus

 CFR should be implemented in the EMS.

Approval

Trend

 Participation in the CFR-system should be actively advertised.

Approval

Trend

 Potential CFR should be recruited with help of established aid organisations.

Approval

No consensus

 All CPR by CFR should be made public.

Uncertain

No consensus

 An exchange of experiences should be organised after a certain time.

Approval

Trend