Prospective performance evaluation of emergency medical services for cardiac arrest in Lombardia: is something moving forward?

Abstract

The strengthening of only one link of the chain-of-survival did not improve 1 month survival.

Incidence, characteristics, and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Italy: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…Our search strategy yielded a total of 291 records. After duplicate removal and records screening, a total of 42 studies were considered eligible, of which 26 original articles published in peer-reviewed journals, 2 , 5 , 11 , 12 , 16 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 10 abstracts presented at national or international congresses, 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 and six theses 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ( Fig. 1 ).…”

Survival of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest by Early Defibrillation in the Sorrento Peninsula

“…The dates of death or discharge were obtained from hospital records. Then for all selected OHCA events we compared two different type of intervention: EMS personnel's rescue (Group A) from 1.4% to 13% during the last ten years (Table 2) [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Gold standard therapy for pVT and for VF is precocious defibrillation and it is considered the only intervention able to increase the survival in case of OHCA [16][17][18][19].…”

The Pavia Cardiac Arrest REgistry — Pavia CARE. It's time for Cardiologists to be engaged in cardiac arrest

“…In this regard many registries have been created all around the world and in particular the EuReCa one (European Registry of Cardiac Arrest) [4] and the RIAC (Registro Italiano degli Arresti Cardiaci) [5] are two European registries to which we joined. Nine registries have been published in Italy [6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] and some by cardiologists, however they are little comparable, focused only on cardiac arrests with a presumed cardiac origin and with a very short follow-up. In our district about five hundred cases of all cause OHCA are expected every year.…”