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Perkins, Gavin D., Lockey, Andrew S., de Belder, Mark, Moore, Fionna, Weissberg, Peter and Gray, Huon (2015) National initiatives to improve outcomes from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in England. Emergency Medicine Journal, 33 (7). pp. 448-451. doi:10.1136/emermed-2015-204847 ISSN 1472-0205.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emermed-2015-204847
Abstract
NHS England report that the ambulance services attempt to resuscitate approximately 28 000 people from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year (approximately 1 per 2000 inhabitants per year).1 The rate of initial success (return of spontaneous circulation) was 25%, with less than half of those who are successfully resuscitated initially surviving to go home from hospital (survival to discharge 7%–8%, 2011–2014).1 (see figure 1). The survival rates contrast sharply with those observed in the best-performing emergency medical services systems, which have survival rates of 20%–25%.2–4 In 2013, the government's Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes Strategy for England set the ambitious, but achievable target of increasing survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by 50%, leading to an additional 1000 lives saved each year.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Clinical Trials Unit Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Cardiac arrest -- Treatment -- Great Britain, CPR (First aid), Cardiovascular system -- Diseases, Allied health personnel | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Emergency Medicine Journal | ||||||
| Publisher: | BMJ Group | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1472-0205 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 23 September 2015 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 33 | ||||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 448-451 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1136/emermed-2015-204847 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR), British Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council (UK) |
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