Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Survival in Children and Young Adults over 30 years, a Nationwide Registry-Based Cohort Study

The impact of losing a child is an immeasurable tragedy affecting the family and the whole community. It is well known that etiologies of cardiac arrest in children differ from those in adults1 –3. Pediatric cardiac arrests primarily stem from prolonged hypoxia or asphyxia caused by respiratory or circulatory failure, whereas cardiac arrests in adults generally are caused by ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation (VT/VF) due to coronary artery disease or heart failure3–4.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Clinical paper Source Type: research