Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in relation to age and early identification of patients with minimal chance of long-term survival

Circulation

Volumn 131, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 1536-1545

  Wissenberg, Mads ^a   Folke, Fredrik ^a   Hansen, Carolina Malta ^a   Lippert, Freddy K ^b   Kragholm, Kristian ^c   Risgaard, Bjarke ^d   Rajan, Shahzleen ^a   Karlsson, Lena ^a   Søndergaard, Kathrine Bach ^a   Hansen, Steen M ^c   Mortensen, Rikke Normark ^c   Weeke, Peter ^a   Christensen, Erika Frischknecht ^b   Nielsen, Søren L ^b,d   Gislason, Gunnar H ^a,e   Køber, Lars ^d   Torp Pedersen, Christian ^c  

^a GENTOFTE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Emergency Medical Services   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age; Heart arrest; Resuscitation; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; DEFIBRILLATOR; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETURN OF SPONTANEOUS CIRCULATION; SHOCK; SURVIVAL RATE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; CARDIOVERSION; CIRCULATION; DENMARK; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FIRST AID; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD CIRCULATION; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; DENMARK; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; FIRST AID; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929377052     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.114.013122     Document Type: Article

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