Open AccessProfile and outcome of sudden cardiac arrests in the emergency department of a tertiary care hospital in South India
Author(s) -
Gautham Raja Pandian,
Suma Mary Thampi,
Nilanchal Chakraborty,
Deepthi Kattula,
Paul Prabhakar Abhilash Kundavaram
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of emergencies, trauma and shock
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 29
eISSN - 0974-519X
pISSN - 0974-2700
DOI - 10.4103/0974-2700.193348
Subject(s) - medicine , return of spontaneous circulation , pulseless electrical activity , asystole , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , emergency department , interquartile range , ventricular fibrillation , odds ratio , logistic regression , confidence interval , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , ventricular tachycardia , sudden cardiac arrest , resuscitation , cardiology , psychiatry
Sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is one of the common emergencies encountered in the emergency department (ED) of any hospital. Although several studies have reported the predictors of CPR outcome in general, there are limited data from the EDs in India.