RT  - Signa Vitae
ID  - 10.22514/SV51.092010.9
T1  - Epidemiology of cardiac arrest outside and inside hospital Experiences from registries in Sweden
A1  - JOHAN HERLITZ
A1  - SOLVEIG AUNE
A1  - ANDREAS CLAESSON
A1  - LEIF SVENSSON
K1  - cardiac arrest outside and inside hospital
K1  - epidemiology
K1  - The Swedish register
K1  - survival
K1  - cer-ebral function
YR  - 2010
SP  - 44
AB  - <p>Cardiac arrest is a dramatic condition leading to sudden death if someone cannot perform two interventions, basic life sup-port and early defibrillation, that have been proved to improve long-term survival. The ‘Utstein style’, recently introduced, represents a standard of practice both inside and outside hospital with recommended guidelines for the uniform reporting of clinical data from the patient suffering cardiac arrest. In Sweden the vast majority of patients suffering from cardiac arrest regardless whether inside or outside hospital are included in webbased national registers (one for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and one for in-hospital-cardiac arrest (IHCA)). In this article we will present our experiences from OHCA and IHCA separately.</p>