1. medics. Apart from a limited trial in north east Fife, which proved the model subsequently used throughout Scotland, there was no scheme for prehospital defibrillation. The ambulance service decided, in conjunction with a medical advisory group, to institute a programme of training of all vehicle crew in defibrillation only, rather than adopt the slower and more expensive option of training vehicle crews according to the full guidelines of the NHS Training Authority."' In the absence of NHS funding for the purchase of defibrillators at that time a fundraising appeal, Heartstart Scotland, was launched jointly with the British Heart Foundation. The objective was to raise £2 25m to equip all 407 ambulances and operational support vehicles in Scotland with a defibrillator and to provide the associated training mannequins, maintenance, and consumables;J.U.N.E.,1991
2. Randomised trial of a mobile coronary care unit for emergecyvcalls;Hampton, JR, Nicholas; C.,1978
3. Social Security. Health sei-vices dezelopment: ambulance service;Department of Health and,1976
4. Clinical, electrophysiologic and hemodynamic profile of patients resuscitated from prehospital cardiac arrest;Myerburg, R.J.; Conde, C.A.; Sung, R.J.;Am], Med,1980
5. Long-term survival after out-ofhospital cardiac arrest;Eisenbcrg, M.; Hallstrom, A.; Bergner, L.;N Engli Med,1982