Cardiac arrest: Treatment is Prevention?

The management of cardiac arrest has benefited from recent advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques. However, despite improvements, the incidence of sudden cardiac death is still high, with more than 4.1 deaths per 100,000 person-years in the United States, and continues to have very low survival rates at hospital discharge - 8% on average - ranging from 0% to 18% [1 –3]. In response to this issue, research and interventions on cardiac arrest prevention has been greatly developed. As early as 2005, the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation included prevention of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as the first link in the chain of survival, alongside “ early recognition” and “calling for help” [4].
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Editorial Source Type: research