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Real-world evidence for public-access defibrillation

Nature Reviews Cardiology volume 14, page 2 (2017)Cite this article

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Public-access defibrillation is known to improve survival rate in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, but evidence on a population level is currently lacking. In a Japanese registry study involving 43,762 patients with ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest, 1-month survival with a favourable neurological outcome was 38.5% in individuals who received public-access defibrillation, and 18.2% in individuals who did not (adjusted OR 2.03, 95% CI 1.87–2.20). Furthermore, the estimated number of survivors with a favourable neurological outcome attributable to public-access defibrillation increased from six in 2005 to 201 in 2013 (P <0.001).

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  1. Kitamura, T. et al. Public-access defibrillation and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Japan. N. Eng. J. Med. 375, 1649–1659 (2016)

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  1. Dario Ummarino
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Ummarino, D. Real-world evidence for public-access defibrillation. Nat Rev Cardiol 14, 2 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2016.190

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