This article is part of the supplement: Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009 .

Oral presentation

Continued cardiopulmonary resuscitation during transport in a physician-based Emergency Medical System

Elín E Sigurðardóttir , Søren L Nielsen and Freddy K Lippert

Mobile Emergency Care Unit, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Denmark

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from Scandinavian Update on Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009
Stavanger, Norway. 23 – 25 April 2009

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine 2009, 17(Suppl 3):O10doi:10.1186/1757-7241-17-S3-O10

Published:	28 August 2009

First paragraph (this article has no abstract)

In the Capital Region of Denmark the physician-staffed Mobile Emergency Care Unit (MECU) is dispatched to all of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA). OHCA is treated at the scene and patients are either successfully resuscitated at scene or resuscitation is not successful and the patient declared dead [1]. In a limited number of cases initial resuscitation is not successful and the patient is transferred to hospital with ongoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).