Daytime admission is associated with higher 1-month survival for pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Analysis of a nationwide multicenter observational study in Japan.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Hospital characteristics, such as hospital type and admission time, have been reported to be associated with survival in adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients. However, findings regarding the effects of hospital types on pediatric OHCA patients have been limited. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between the hospital characteristics and the outcomes of pediatric OHCA patients.

Methods

This study was a retrospective secondary analysis of the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine-out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry. The period of this study was from 1 June 2014 to 31 December 2015. We enrolled all pediatric patients (those 0-17 years of age) experiencing OHCA in this study. We enrolled all types of OHCA. The primary outcome of

SUBMITTER: Shinohara M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7875334 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature