Introducing the Crimean out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation registry (COHCARR): Rationale, design and 6-month baseline data
Journal: Journal Resuscitatio Balcanica
Year: 2019

Introduction: There is an urgent unmet need for establishing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) registries in the former Soviet Union countries. This article aims to provide a rationale and describe methodology of the Crimean out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and resuscitation registry (COHCARR), and report baseline information on OHCA epidemiology and emergency medical service (EMS) performance in the Republic of Crimea. Methods: COHCARR is designed to be a prospective population-based registry