Prehospital acute life-threatening cardiovascular disease in elderly: an observational, prospective, multicentre, ambulance-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim was to explore the association of demographic and prehospital parameters with short-term and long-term mortality in acute life-threatening cardiovascular disease by using a hazard model, focusing on elderly individuals, by comparing patients under 75 years versus patients over 75 years of age.

Design

Prospective, multicentre, observational study.

Setting

Emergency medical services (EMS) delivery study gathering data from two back-to-back studies between 1 October 2019 and 30 November 2021. Six advanced life support (ALS), 43 basic life support and five hospitals in Spain were considered.

Participants

Adult patients suffering from acute life-threatening cardiovascular disease attended by the EMS.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

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SUBMITTER: Del Pozo Vegas C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10668192 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature