Survival and long-term outcomes following in-hospital cardiac arrest in a Swiss university hospital: a prospective observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Incidence of in-hospital cardiac arrest is reported to be 0.8 to 4.6 per 1,000 patient admissions. Patient survival to hospital discharge with favourable functional and neurological status is around 21-30%. The Bern University Hospital is a tertiary medical centre in Switzerland with a cardiac arrest team that is available 24 h per day, 7 days per week. Due to lack of central documentation of cardiac arrest team interventions, the incidence, outcomes and survival rates of cardiac arrests in the hospital are unknown. Our aim was to record all cardiac arrest team interventions over 1 year, and to analyse the outcome and survival rates of adult patients after in-hospital cardiac arrests.

Methods

We conducted a prospective single-centre observational study that record

SUBMITTER: Fuchs A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8359113 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature