Out-of-hospital resuscitation in Estonia: a bystander-witnessed sudden cardiac arrest.

Objective: To evaluate the results of the first epidemiological study on out-of-hospital resuscitation in Estonia.

Methods: A prospective cohort study of 2108 consecutive standardized reports on out-of-hospital resuscitation attempts from 1 January 1999 to 31 December 2002 was conducted according to the Utstein style.

Results: In all, 67.