Saving the On-Scene Time for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients: The Registered Nurses’ Role and Performance in Emergency Medical Service Teams

Figure 1

Schematic flow chart of experimental design. 2T, an EMS team with 2 emergency medical technicians; 2T1N, an EMS team with 2 emergency medical technicians and 1 nurse; NT-O, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients in nontrauma cases; NT-C, critical patients in nontrauma cases; NT-NC, noncritical patients in nontrauma cases; T-CS, patients with collar-and-spinal board fixation in trauma cases; T-F, patients with fracture fixation in the trauma cases; T-G, general trauma cases.