Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA) has received limited attention. All causes of POHCA and outcomes were examined during a 4-year period in a Danish nationwide register and prehospital medical records. The aim was to describe the incidence, reversible causes, and survival rates for POHCA in Denmark.

Methods

This is a registry-based follow-up cohort study. All POHCA for a 4-year period (2016-2019) in Denmark were included. All prehospital medical records for the included subjects were reviewed manually by five independent raters establishing whether a presumed reversible cause could be assigned.

Results

We identified 173 cases within the study period. The median incidence of POHCA in the population below 17 years of age was 4.2 per 100,000 pers

SUBMITTER: Holgersen MG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9670404 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature