Resuscitation 87 (2015) e11
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Letter to the Editor No change in survival after cardiac arrest in 2007 and 2012 at a hospital in Denmark Sir, The international guidelines on resuscitation are updated every five years. In the latest revision, there was focus on prevention, quality of resuscitation and post-care.1 But to date, no data on in-hospital (IHCA) and out-of-hospital (OHCA) cardiac arrest in Denmark after the implementation of the latest guidelines, have been published. The aim of our study was to present data on patients suffering from cardiac arrest in relation to a hospital in Denmark. We performed a retrospective, single-center analysis of all cardiac arrests treated at Sydvestjysk Sygehus, a 450-bed regional teaching hospital, in 2007 and 2012. In 2007, the 2005 guidelines were fully implemented as were the 2010 revision in 2012. In 2007, a physician-manned ambulance was under implementation and it was fully implemented by 2010. Patients were identified from an in-house cardiac arrest register and we included all patients in cardiac arrest in any ward (designated IHCA) and patients brought to the Emergency Department with cardiac arrest (designated OHCA). Data were extracted from the charts. The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency and approval from the local Ethics Committee was, according to Danish law, not required. Continuous data will be reported as median (range) and categorical data as proportions (%). Categorical data will be compared using the Chi-square-test and continuous data using the Mann–Whitney’s U-test. p-values
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Resuscitation journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/resuscitation
Letter to the Editor No change in survival after cardiac arrest in 2007 and 2012 at a hospital in Denmark Sir, The international guidelines on resuscitation are updated every five years. In the latest revision, there was focus on prevention, quality of resuscitation and post-care.1 But to date, no data on in-hospital (IHCA) and out-of-hospital (OHCA) cardiac arrest in Denmark after the implementation of the latest guidelines, have been published. The aim of our study was to present data on patients suffering from cardiac arrest in relation to a hospital in Denmark. We performed a retrospective, single-center analysis of all cardiac arrests treated at Sydvestjysk Sygehus, a 450-bed regional teaching hospital, in 2007 and 2012. In 2007, the 2005 guidelines were fully implemented as were the 2010 revision in 2012. In 2007, a physician-manned ambulance was under implementation and it was fully implemented by 2010. Patients were identified from an in-house cardiac arrest register and we included all patients in cardiac arrest in any ward (designated IHCA) and patients brought to the Emergency Department with cardiac arrest (designated OHCA). Data were extracted from the charts. The study was approved by the Danish Data Protection Agency and approval from the local Ethics Committee was, according to Danish law, not required. Continuous data will be reported as median (range) and categorical data as proportions (%). Categorical data will be compared using the Chi-square-test and continuous data using the Mann–Whitney’s U-test. p-values
