Abstract
Patients surviving cardiac arrest account for 5.8% of all UK ICU admissions1. Analysis of the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre Case Mix Programme Database (ICNARC CMPD) found that 42.9% of patients admitted after cardiac arrest survived to ICU discharge, and 28.6% survived to hospital discharge. Of these 79.9% returned directly home1.
Highlights
Patients surviving cardiac arrest account for 5.8% of all UK ICU admissions1
Primary PCI was performed in 20% VF/VT OHCA
Cooling was achieved in 78% of VF/VT OHCA compared to 24% of VF/VT IHCA
Summary
To see if our outcomes were comparable to published data and to audit care against the UK Intensive Care Society (ICS) guidelines
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