INTRODUCTION Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a global health care problem. Like other cities in the world, Hong Kong faces the impact of such events. This study is the first territory-wide investigation of the epidemiology and outcomes of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Hong Kong. It is hoped that the findings can improve survival of patients with cardiac arrest. METHODS This study was a ...

Abstract Sudden death guidelines make emphasis on the need to identify etihiology of arrest in survived patients or their family members. If cardio–pulmonary resuscitation techniques are almost standardized throughout world, intra– and post–hospital treatment patient changes different centers countries. The local discrepancies related survival rate can instead be considered as an indirect index...

OBJECTIVE To compare vasopressin and adrenaline in the treatment of patients with cardiac arrest presenting to or in the Emergency Department (ED). DESIGN A randomised, double-blind, multi-centre, parallel-design clinical trial in four adult hospitals. METHOD Eligible cardiac arrest patients (confirmed by the absence of pulse, unresponsiveness and apnea) aged >16 (aged>21 for one hospital) ...

despite the reduction of mortality rate in the past years, coronary artery diseases (cads) are the main reason of death in the world. many factors including changes in nurses and medical staffs, numbers of beds influence the mortality rate of patients admitted in holidays and night time. the objectives of this study were to clarify the association between mortality rate and off-hours and holida...

BACKGROUND Studies of elderly patients who have out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have contradictory results. The studies usually define elderly patients as those older than 70 years, and include relatively few octogenarians and nonagenarians. OBJECTIVES To compare the survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of octogenarians, nonagenarians, and younger patients and to determine the influen...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest is the leading cause of mortality in Canada, and the overall survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest rarely exceeds 5%. Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) has been shown to increase survival for cardiac arrest victims. However, bystander CPR rates remain low in Canada, rarely exceeding 15%, despite various attempts to improve them. Dispatch-assisted...