Vivien Hong Tuan Ha, Daniel Jost, Wulfran Bougouin, Guillaume Joly, Romain Jouffroy, Patricia Jabre, Frankie Beganton, Clément Derkenne, Sabine Lemoine, Lemoine Frédéric, Lionel Lamhaut, Thomas Loeb, François Revaux, Florence Dumas, Julie Trichereau, Olivier Stibbe, Nicolas Deye, Eloi Marijon, Alain Cariou, Xavier Jouven, Stephane Travers
OBJECTIVE: Over 300 000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) occur each year in the USA and Europe. Despite decades of investment and research, survival remains disappointingly low. We report the trends in survival after a ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia OHCA, over a 13-year period, in a French urban region, and describe the simultaneous evolution of the rescue system. METHODS: We investigated four 18-month periods between 2005 and 2018...
August 27, 2023: Emergency Medicine Journal: EMJ