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Background: In-hospital cardiac arrest is one of the most stressful situations in modern medicine. Since 1997, there has been a uniform way of reporting -the Utstein guidelines for in-hospital cardiac arrest reporting. ## Material and methods: We have studied all consecutive cardiac arrest in the Sahlgrenska University Hospital (SU) between 1994 and 2001 for who the rescue team was alerted in all 833 patients. The primary endpoint for this study was survival to discharge. Results: Thirty-seven percent survived to hospital discharge. Among patients who were discharged alive, 86% were alive 1 year later. The survivors have a good cerebral outcome (94% among those who were discharged alive had cerebral performance category (CPC) score 1 or 2). The organization at SU is efficient; 80% of the cardiac arrest had CPR within 1 min. Time from cardiac arrest to first defibrillation is a median of 2 min. Almost two-thirds of the patients were admitted for cardiac related diagnoses. ## Conclusion: The current study is the largest single-centre study of in hospital cardiac arrest reported according to the Utstein guidelines. We report a high survival for inhospital cardiac arrest. We have point

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Author

Martin Fredriksson; Solveig Aune; Ann-Britt Thorén; Johan Herlitz

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0300-9572)

Published

2006

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)