SURVIVABILTY OF THE CARDIAC ARREST

Survivability of the cardiac arrest

Survivability of the cardiac arrest

Heart failure is an important public health problem and is often found in hospital patients with no prior history of heart disease. Only some communities or emergency medical service (EMS) systems account survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Among those, the survival rate significantly different between the cities, in large part to community differences in the chain of survival. To improve survival from cardiac arrest, care must be optimized at each point along the continuum of cardiac arrest, including a rapid response to emergencies, providing cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR), passers-by, ...