Summary

Incidence, treatment, and factors associated with survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest attended by Spanish emergency services: report from the Out-of-Hospital Spanish Cardiac Arrest Registry for 2022

José Ignacio Ruiz Azpiazu1, Patricia Fernández del Valle2, María Carmen Escriche3, Sonia Royo Embid4, Cristian Fernández Barreras5, Youcef Azeli6, Marcos Juanes García7, Susana Batres Gómez8, Juan Valenciano Rodríguez9, M. José Luque Hernández10, José M.ª Navalpotro Pascual11, José Antonio Iglesias Vázquez12, Alfredo Echarri Sucunza13, M.ª José García-Ochoa Blanco14, Carmen del Pozo Pérez15, José Antonio Cortés Ramas16, M.ª Isabel Ceniceros Rozalén17, Cruz López Pérez18, César Manuel Guerra García19, Silvia Sola Muñoz6, Faustino Redondo Revilla20, Inmaculada Mateo-Rodríguez21, Fernando Rosell Ortiz1, Antonio Daponte Codina21

Affiliation of the authors

1Servicio de Emergencias Sanitarias 061, La Rioja, Fundación Rioja Salud, Spain. 2Agencia de Servicios Sociales y Dependencia de Andalucía, Spain. 3SESCV Servei d’emergències de la Comunitat Valenciana, Spain. 4061 e Instituto de Ciencias de la Salud, Aragón, Spain. 5Emergentziak-Emergencias, Osakidetza, Euzkadi, Spain. 6Sistema de Emergencies Mediques, Catalunya. Institut d’ Investigació Sanitaria Pere i Virgili, Tarragona (IISPV), Spain. 7Servicio de Emergencias Sanitarias 061, La Rioja. Fundación Rioja Salud, Spain. 8Emergencias Sanitarias de Extremadura, Spain. 9Gerencia de Urgencias, Emergencias y Transporte Sanitario (GUETS), Castilla La Mancha, Spain. 10Centro de Emergencias 061, SP Málaga, Andalucía, Spain. 11SUMMA112, Madrid, Spain. 12Fundación Pública Urxencias Sanitarias 061, Galicia, Spain. 13Servicio de Urgencias Extrahospitalarias de Navarra. 14SAMUR Protección Civil, Madrid, Spain. 15Servicio de Emergencias Sanitarias, Castilla y León, Spain. 16Servicio de Bomberos de Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. 17SAMU 061 Baleares, Spain. 18Servicio de Emergencias 061, Murcia, Spain. 19Servicio de Emergencias 061 Cantabria, Spain. 20Servicio de Urgencias Canario (SUC), Spain. 21Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública. CIBERESP, Spain. En representación de investigadores del Registro Español de Parada Cardiaca Extrahospitalaria (OHSCAR).

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Ruiz Azpiazu JI, Fernández del Valle P, Escriche MC, Royo Embid S, Fernández Barreras C, Azeli Y, et al. Incidence, treatment, and factors associated with survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest attended by Spanish emergency services: report from the Out-of-Hospital Spanish Cardiac Arrest Registry for 2022. Emergencias. 2024;36:131-9

Summary

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is a serious public health problem worldwide. The annual incidence is estimated at around 400 000 cases in Europe and the United States, and survival rates scarcely reach 10%. However, there is considerable variation between countries and even between regions that share a similar health care system within a single country. Information recorded by the Out-of-Hospital Spanish Cardiac Arrest Registry (OHSCAR) provides information on care provided by emergency ambulance services, final health outcomes after cardiac arrest cases (including variations), the possibility of organ donation, and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents the OHSCAR report for Spanish emergency services for the year 2022.

 

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