Nilesh Pareek, Paul Rees, Tom Quinn, Johannes Von Vopelius-Feldt, Sean Gallagher, Abdul Mozid, Tom Johnson, Ellie Gudde, Rupert Simpson, Guy Glover, John Davies, Nick Curzen, Thomas R Keeble
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) affects 80,000 patients per year in the UK; despite improvements in care, survival to discharge remains lower than 10%. NHS England and several societies recommend all resuscitated OHCA patients be directly transferred to a cardiac arrest centre (CAC). However, evidence is limited that all patients benefit from transfer to a CAC, and there are significant organisational, logistic and financial implications associated with such change in policies. Furthermore, there is significant variability in interventional cardiovascular practices for OHCA...
January 2022: Interventional Cardiology