Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Characteristics, outcomes, and prognostic factors in patients with hanging-induced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An analysis of a nationwide registry in Japan
Authors' conclusion
Prognosis following hanging-induced OHCAs was significantly worse compared to OHCAs of other causes.
Study context
- Population
- Adults ≥18 years with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), Japanese nationwide OHCA registry, 2021–20227,878 (3.0 %) hanging-induced
- Participants
- 263,426 adults
- Exposure
- Hanging-induced OHCA vs OHCA of other causes
- Hanging-induced OHCAn = 7,878
- Outcome
- Favourable neurological outcomes
- Follow-up
- 1 month
Methodological detailspopulation-based, nationwide registry, multivariable logistic regression
- Population-based
- Nationwide registry
- Multivariable logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
1-month favourable neurological outcomes
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Patient characteristics
Median age Hanging-induced OHCA 58 years · Other OHCA causes 81 years
Male
Witnessed
Initial shockable rhythm
Incidence of hanging-induced OHCA
- Incidence
- 3.1 per 100,000 person-years
Prognostic factors for favourable neurological outcomes after hanging-induced OHCA · 1 month
%
- Probability of favourable outcome with initial non-asystole rhythm and prehospital return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)
- 11.1
- Patients lacking these characteristics
- 97.1
- Probability of favourable outcome in patients lacking these characteristics
- 0.1
- Associated factors: younger age, witnessed arrest, initial non-asystole rhythm, prehospital ROSC
Original publication
Characteristics, outcomes, and prognostic factors in patients with hanging-induced out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An analysis of a nationwide registry in Japan. Resuscitation. Published 30 November 2024. doi:10.
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