First Hour Quintet

First Hour Quintet (FHQ) is an emergency medical research catchphrase that was introduced in September 2002 at a meeting of the European Resuscitation Council . This definition is understood to mean a group of threatening patient conditions that can be effectively influenced by the timely deployment of the rescue service .

The individual components are:

1. Cardiac arrest
2. Chest pain
3. stroke
4. Shortness of breath
5. severe injury

The FHQ is used for cross-border comparisons of the emergency services.

literature

• Th. Krafft, L. Garcia-Castrillo: First Hour Quintet along EMS in Europe (PDF; 629 kB). 7th Congress of the European Resuscitation Council, 2002