Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Patient cohorts of interest in resuscitation science – Aligning cardiac arrest registry outputs with stakeholder needs
Authors' conclusion
It is essential to clearly define the cohort of interest when engaging with different stakeholders and to provide data that facilitates quality improvement projects in all areas of the chain of survival. We recommend defining several subgroups of cardiac arrest patients to accommodate benchmarking, quality improvement projects and research relevant for all stakeholders involved in resuscitation and care of cardiac arrest patients.
Study context
- Population
- Patients registered in the Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry (NorCAR) in 2022
- Comparison
- Emergency Medical Communication Centre (EMCC) vs Emergency Medical Services (EMS) vs In-Hospital Care Providers (IHCP) vs Recovery and Rehabilitation Providers (RRP)
- EMCCn = 3,591
- EMSn = 4,150
- RRPn = 1,227
- Outcome
- Patient cohort with treatment initiated by EMCC
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
EMCC
67/100,000 inhabitants
3591 of 3591
Further findings
| Outcome | RRP |
|---|---|
| Cohort eligible for rehabilitation and follow-up (alive 24 h after cardiac arrest) | |
| Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests | 705 |
| In-hospital cardiac arrests | 522 |
- EMS-attended confirmed cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) started
- 4150 (77/100,000 inhabitants) · Attended, confirmed cardiac arrest · CPR started 3083 (57/100,000 inhabitants)
- Cohort eligible for treatment by IHCP
- 1114 · Admitted to hospital alive or with ongoing CPR · In-hospital cardiac arrest cases 1230
Original publication
Patient cohorts of interest in resuscitation science – Aligning cardiac arrest registry outputs with stakeholder needs. Resuscitation. Published 21 January 2025. doi:10.
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