Urban-Rural Differences in Cardiac Arrest Outcomes: A Retrospective Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Approximately 10% of people who suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) treated by paramedics survive to hospital discharge. Survival differs by up to 19.2% between urban centres and rural areas. Our goal was to investigate the differences in OHCA survival between urban centres and rural areas.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study of OHCA patients treated by Nova Scotia Emergency Medical Services (EMS) in 2017. Cases of traumatic, expected, and noncardiac OHCA were excluded. Data were collected from the Emergency Health Service electronic patient care record system and the discharge abstract database. Geographic information system analysis classified cases as being in urban centres (population > 1000 people) or rural areas, using 2016 Canadian Cen

SUBMITTER: Connolly MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9039571 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature