Survival after cardiac arrest outside hospital over a 12-year period in Gothenburg.

• A two-tiered ambulance system with a mobile coronary care unit and standard ambulance has operated in Gothenburg (population 434,000) since 1980. Mass education in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) commenced in 1985 and in 1988 semiautomatic defibrillators were introduced. Aim: To describe early and late survival after cardiac arrest outside hospital over a 12-year period. Target population: All patients with prehospital cardiac arrest in Gothenburg reached by mobile coronary care unit or standard ambulance between 1980 and 1992.

Ämnesord

MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP  -- Klinisk medicin -- Kardiologi (hsv//swe)

MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES  -- Clinical Medicine -- Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems (hsv//eng)

Nyckelord

Adult

Age Distribution

Aged

Ambulances

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

education

utilization

Electric Countershock

utilization

Epinephrine

therapeutic use

Female

Heart Arrest

mortality

therapy

Humans

Lidocaine

therapeutic use

Male

Middle Aged

Sex Distribution

Sweden

epidemiology

Time Factors

Treatment Outcome

Ventricular Fibrillation

mortality

therapy

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