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Observational Study
. 2015 Jun 9;5(6):e007626.
doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-007626.

Temporal trends in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes between two metropolitan communities: Seoul-Osaka resuscitation study

Young Sun Ro  1 , Sang Do Shin  2 , Tetsuhisa Kitamura  3 , Eui Jung Lee  2 , Kentaro Kajino  4 , Kyoung Jun Song  2 , Chika Nishiyama  5 , So Yeon Kong  1 , Tomohiko Sakai  4 , Tatsuya Nishiuchi  6 , Yasuyuki Hayashi  7 , Taku Iwami  8 ; Seoul-Osaka Resuscitation Study Group
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Observational Study

Temporal trends in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival outcomes between two metropolitan communities: Seoul-Osaka resuscitation study

Young Sun Ro et al. BMJ Open. .

Abstract

Objectives: The objective of this study was to compare the temporal trends in survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) between two large metropolitan communities in Asia and evaluate the factors affecting survival after OHCA.

Design: A population-based prospective observational study.

Setting: The Cardiovascular Disease Surveillance (CAVAS) project in Seoul and the Utstein Osaka Project in Osaka.

Participants: A total of 36,292 resuscitation-attempted OHCAs with cardiac aetiology from 2006 to 2011 in Seoul and Osaka (11,082 in Seoul and 25,210 in Osaka).

Primary outcome measures: The primary outcome was neurologically favourable survival. Trend analysis and multivariable Poisson regression models were conducted to evaluate the temporal trends in survival of two communities.

Results: During the study period, the overall neurologically favourable survival was 2.6% in Seoul and 4.6% in Osaka (p<0.01). In both communities, bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) rates increased significantly from 2006 to 2011 (from 0.1% to 13.1% in Seoul and from 33.3% to 41.7% in Osaka). OHCAs that occurred in public places increased in Seoul (12.5% to 20.1%, p for trend <0.01) and decreased in Osaka (13.5% to 10.5%, p for trend <0.01). The proportion of OHCAs defibrillated by emergency medical service (EMS) providers was only 0.4% in 2006 but increased to 17.5% in 2011 in Seoul, whereas the proportion in Osaka decreased from 17.7% to 13.7% (both p for trend <0.01). Age-adjusted and gender-adjusted rates of neurologically favourable survival increased significantly in Seoul from 1.4% in 2006 to 4.3% in 2011 (adjusted rate ratio per year, 1.17; p for trend <0.01), whereas no significant improvement was observed in Osaka (3.6% in 2006 and 5.1% in 2011; adjusted rate ratio per year, 1.03; p for trend=0.08).

Conclusions: Survivals after OHCA were increased in Seoul while remained constant in Osaka, which may have been affected by the differences and improvements of patient, community, and EMS system factors.

Keywords: ACCIDENT & EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EPIDEMIOLOGY.

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Figure 1
Study flow of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients from 1 January 2006 to 31 December 2011.
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Figure 2
Temporal trends of survival outcomes by community for resuscitation attempted out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with cardiac aetiology (A) and witnessed cardiac arrests (B) during the study period.
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