Hong Kong needs a territory-wide registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Hong Kong needs a territory-wide registry for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Hong Kong Med J. 2019 Jun 10;:
Authors: Lui CT, Lau CL, Siu AYC, Fan KL, Leung LP
Abstract
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is an urgent disease entity, and the outcomes of OHCA are poor. This causes a significant public health burden, with loss of life and productivity throughout society. Internationally, successful programmes have adopted various survival enhancement measures to improve outcomes of OHCA. A territory-wide organised survival enhancement campaign is required in Hong Kong to maintain OHCA survival rates that are comparable to those of other large cities. One key component is to establish an OHCA registry, such as those in Asia, the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. An OHCA registry can provide benchmarking, auditing, and surveillance for identification of weak points within the chain of survival and evaluation of the effectiveness of survival enhancement measures. In Hong Kong, digitisation of records in prehospital and in-hospital care provides the infrastructure for an OHCA registry. Resources and governance to maintain a sustainable OHCA registry are necessary in Hong Kong as the first step to improve survival and outcomes of OHCA.
PMID: 31178443 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Hong Kong Med J - June 9, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Lui CT, Lau CL, Siu AYC, Fan KL, Leung LP Tags: Hong Kong Med J Source Type: research