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Improving Survival and Neurologic Function for Younger Age Groups After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Sweden: A 20-Year Comparison.
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2015 (English)In: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, ISSN 1529-7535, E-ISSN 1947-3893, Vol. 16, no 8, p. 750-757Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

OBJECTIVE: To describe changes in the epidemiology of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sweden with the emphasis on the younger age groups.

DESIGN: Prospective observational study.

SETTING: Sweden.

PATIENTS: Patients were recruited from the Swedish Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation from 1990 to 2012. Only non-crew-witnessed cases were included.

INTERVENTION: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

MEASUREMENT AND MAIN RESULTS: The endpoint was 30-day survival. Cerebral function among survivors was estimated according to the cerebral performance category scores. In all, 50,879 patients in the survey had an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, of which 1,321 (2.6%) were 21 years old or younger and 1,543 (3.0%) were 22-35 years old. On the basis of results from 2011 and 2012, we estimated that there are 4.9 cases per 100,000 person-years in the age group 0-21 years. The highest survival was found in the 13- to 21-year age group (12.6%). Among patients 21 years old or younger, the following were associated with an increased chance of survival: increasing age, male gender, witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation, and a short emergency medical service response time. Among patients 21 years old or younger , there was an increase in survival from 6.2% in 1992-1998 to 14.0% in 2007-2012. Among 30-day survivors, 91% had a cerebral performance category score of 1 or 2 (good cerebral performance or moderate cerebral disability) at hospital discharge.

CONCLUSIONS: In Sweden, among patients 21 years old or younger, five out-of-hospital cardiac arrests per 100,000 person-years occur and survival in this patient group has more than doubled during the past two decades. The majority of survivors have good or relatively good cerebral function.

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2015. Vol. 16, no 8, p. 750-757
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URN: urn:nbn:se:hb:diva-5418DOI: 10.1097/PCC.0000000000000503ISI: 000369708000016PubMedID: 26218255Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84943147338OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hb-5418DiVA, id: diva2:885221
Available from: 2015-12-18 Created: 2015-12-18 Last updated: 2018-12-21Bibliographically approved

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