Survival prospects ‘high’ after community cardiac arrest
There's room for improvement, however, including better understanding of the role of comorbidities, commentators say
Patients experiencing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest have good long-term survival prospects following index hospitalisation, estimated at 62-64% at 10 years, a new review shows.
This rate is comparable to that for individuals admitted to ICU, including those with ST-elevated MI (STEMI), researchers say, and it is higher than 10-year survival following CABG.
