Bystander Efforts and 1-Year Outcomes in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Among patients in Denmark who survived for 30 days after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR and bystander defibrillation were associated with significantly lower risks of brain damage or nursing home admission and of death from any cause than no bystander intervention.

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Published in:The New England journal of medicine Vol. 376; no. 18; pp. 1737 - 1747
Main Authors: Kragholm, Kristian, Wissenberg, Mads, Mortensen, Rikke N, Hansen, Steen M, Malta Hansen, Carolina, Thorsteinsson, Kristinn, Rajan, Shahzleen, Lippert, Freddy, Folke, Fredrik, Gislason, Gunnar, Køber, Lars, Fonager, Kirsten, Jensen, Svend E, Gerds, Thomas A, Torp-Pedersen, Christian, Rasmussen, Bodil S
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 04.05.2017
Subjects:
Adult
Aged
Ambulance services
Cardiac arrest
Cardiology
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Clinical outcomes
CPR
Denmark
Electric Countershock
Female
Heart attacks
Humans
Hypoxia, Brain - epidemiology
Hypoxia, Brain - etiology
Institutionalization - statistics & numerical data
Intention to Treat Analysis
Male
Middle Aged
Nursing Homes
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - complications
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - mortality
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - therapy
Patients
Risk
Survival Analysis
Volunteers
Denmark
ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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Summary:Among patients in Denmark who survived for 30 days after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, bystander CPR and bystander defibrillation were associated with significantly lower risks of brain damage or nursing home admission and of death from any cause than no bystander intervention.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMoa1601891