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Early Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Submitted by

Arie Blitz

Source

Source Name: New England Journal of Medicine

Source URL: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1405796?query=featured_home

Author(s)

Ingela Hasselqvist-Ax, Gabriel Riva, Johan Herlitz, Mårten Rosenqvist, Jacob Hollenberg, Per Nordberg, Mattias Ringh, Martin Jonsson, Christer Axelsson, Jonny Lindqvist, Thomas Karlsson, and Leif Svensson

This Swedish study was a retrospective review over a 20-year time period that compared survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest between those receiving bystander CPR prior to EMS arrival and those not receiving such. CPR before the arrival of EMS was associated with an increased 30-d survival rate (odds ratio 2.15; 95% CI 1.88-2.45).