Improving Outcomes Following In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Initiatives for improving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes.

O ut-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) leading to sudden cardiac death (SCD) remains a huge public health burden, accounting for >350 000 deaths in the United States each year 1 and an equivalent number in Europe. The societal impact is evident from the fact that as many as 50% of all cardiac deaths are SCDs, 1 with many of the affected individuals in their productive years. One cost estimate p...

Long-term outcomes following pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest*.

OBJECTIVES Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is an uncommon event with measurable short-term survival to hospital discharge. For those who survive to hospital discharge, little is known regarding duration of survival. We sought to evaluate the arrest circumstances and long-term survival of pediatric patients who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and survived to hospital disch...

Improving survival from in-hospital cardiac arrest.

The national survival rate to hospital discharge for patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest has previously been documented by the National Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Registry as 17%.1 More recently, Peberdy et al reported that in 86,748 adult, consecutive in-hospital cardiac arrest events in the National CPR Registry, with data obtained from 507 medical/surgical participating hospita...

Initiatives for Improving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Outcomes Running title: Myerburg; Tracking Cardiac Arrest and Responses

Arrest in hospital: a study of in hospital cardiac arrest outcomes.

The effect of advances in cardiac arrest management over the last five decades on in-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates is not clear. Data on 212 arrests between January 2010 and May 2013 were retrospectively analyzed by means of an audit form based upon the Utstein template for in-hospital cardiac arrest, with a view to identifying significant associations between arrest characteristics an...