Early CPR in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

To the Editor: Hasselqvist-Ax and colleagues (June 11 issue) 1 report that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that was performed by bystanders more than doubled the odds of 30-day survival among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who presented with asystole and pulseless electrical activi...

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 373; no. 16; pp. 1572 - 1574
Main Authors Nehme, Ziad, Bernard, Stephen, Smith, Karen, Shiyovich, Arthur, Gerovich, Alexander, Katz, Amos, Rottenberg, Eric M, Hasselqvist-Ax, Ingela, Herlitz, Johan, Svensson, Leif
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 15.10.2015
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Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
CPR
Female
Fibrillation
Heart
Humans
Male
Medicin och hälsovetenskap
Människan i vården
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - therapy
Survival
Ventricle
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Summary:To the Editor: Hasselqvist-Ax and colleagues (June 11 issue) 1 report that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) that was performed by bystanders more than doubled the odds of 30-day survival among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who presented with asystole and pulseless electrical activity. Previous studies have indicated that bystander CPR improves survival by prolonging the deterioration of ventricular fibrillation into asystole but offers no additional benefit if asystole or pulseless electrical activity is present on arrival of emergency medical services (EMS). 2 – 4 Here, we provide additional data from the Victorian Ambulance Cardiac Arrest Registry for 13,448 bystander-witnessed arrests that occurred between January . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMc1509059