Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Cardiac arrest after hanging: A scoping review
Authors' conclusion
There are few data to inform treatment of patients with cardiac arrest after hanging. The available data suggest that cardiac arrest is a critical determinant of poor outcome following hanging. Further research should uniformly report outcomes of patients with cardiac arrest after hanging based on the Utstein template.
Study context
- Population
- Adults or children with non-judicial hanging, including cardiac arrest patientsstudies included
- Participants
- 45 adults
- Comparison
- Patients with and without cardiac arrest after hanging
- Outcome
- Survival with favourable functional outcome
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Patients with cardiac arrest after hanging
rare
Patients without cardiac arrest
very common
Further findings
Cervical spine, airway and vascular injuries
- Cervical spine, airway and vascular injuries were rare
Interventions associated with improved survival following return of spontaneous circulation
- No studies identified interventions that were associated with improved survival following return of spontaneous circulation
Search and study selection
- Articles retrieved
- 855
- References underwent full-text review
- One hundred and nineteen
- Studies included
- Forty-five
- Studies were mainly from high-income countries and were all observational
- Variation in the terminology for hanging and in the outcomes reported
Original publication
Cardiac arrest after hanging: A scoping review. Resuscitation. Published 21 January 2025. doi:10.
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