Recent trends in survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite intensive efforts over many years, the United States has made limited progress in improving rates of survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Recently, national organizations, such as the American Heart Association, have focused on promoting bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, use of automated external defibrillators, and other performance improvement efforts.

Methods and results

Using the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES), a prospective clinical registry, we identified 70 027 U.S. patients who experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between October 2005 and December 2012. Using multilevel Poisson regression, we examined temporal trends in risk-adjusted survival. After adjusting for patient and cardiac arrest characteristi

SUBMITTER: Chan PS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4276415 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature