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False cardiac arrests: the right time to turn away?

Author(s) -

Gary Kenward,

Alan Robinson,

Sandra Bradburn,

Richard P. Steeds

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

postgraduate medical journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.568

H-Index - 99

eISSN - 1469-0756

pISSN - 0032-5473

DOI - 10.1136/pgmj.2006.054981

Subject(s) - medicine , population , return of spontaneous circulation , odds ratio , resuscitation , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , environmental health

Cardiac arrest teams may be activated only to find that the patient does not require cardiac or respiratory resuscitation. Members of the cardiac arrest team are drawn from medical personnel with other responsibilities who may disperse quickly, leaving ongoing care of the patient to existing ward staff. The outcome for such false cardiac arrests, however, is rarely reported. The objective of this study was to determine the causes of false cardiac arrest team alerts (FCAs) and to assess the outcome of these patients relative to the general hospital population.

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