Long-term survival benefit from treatment at a specialty center after cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The Institute of Medicine and American Heart Association have called for tiered accreditation standards and regionalization of post-cardiac arrest care, but there is little data to support that regionalization has a durable effect on patient outcomes. We tested the effect of treatment at a high-volume center on long-term outcome after sudden cardiac arrest (SCA).

Methods

We included patients hospitalized at one of 7 medical centers in Southwestern Pennsylvania after SCA from 2005 to 2013. Centers were one regional referral center with an organized systems for post-SCA care, two moderate volume tertiary care centers and 4 low-volume centers. We abstracted clinical characteristics and outcomes at hospital discharge, and for survivors to discharge we queried the Na

SUBMITTER: Elmer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5850957 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature