Resuscitation registers: how many active registers are there and how many collect data on paediatric cardiac arrests?

Cardiac arrest, particularly in children, often has a poor outcome and international guidelines highlight significant gaps in the evidence base for effective resuscitation. Whilst randomised controlled trials for some interventions can be justified, they are not appropriate for many aspects of resuscitation. Therefore, guidelines must use other sources of data such as epidemiological evidence from cardiac arrest registries, to improve the efficacy of resuscitation.The aim of our study was to identify existing national cardiac arrest registries and document key information about the registries, including whether they contain data on paediatric arrests.

Source: Resuscitation - March 22, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Alison Booth, Alexander Moylan, Jasmin Hodgson, Kath Wright, Kristyn Langworthy, Naoki Shimizu, Ian Maconochie Tags: Clinical paper Source Type: research