articleCirculationMar 10, 2009GREEN OA

Epidemiology and Outcomes From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Children

Atkins (United States) · Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · +3 more institutions

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Population-based data for pediatric cardiac arrest are scant and largely from urban areas. The Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium (ROC) Epistry-Cardiac Arrest is a population-based emergency medical services registry of out-of-hospital nontraumatic cardiac arrest (OHCA). This study examined age-stratified incidence and outcomes of pediatric OHCA. We hypothesized that survival to hospital discharge is less frequent from pediatric OHCA than adult OHCA. METHODS AND RESULTS: This prospective population-based cohort study in 11 US and Canadian ROC sites included persons

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