Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in nursing homes and primary care facilities in Pirkanmaa, Finland

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica
H KangasniemiS Hoppu

Abstract

Dispatching Emergency Medical Services to treat patients with deteriorating health in nursing homes and primary care facilities is common in Finland. We examined the cardiac arrest patients to describe this phenomenon. We had a special interest in patients for whom cardiopulmonary resuscitation was considered futile. We conducted an observational study between 1 June 2013 and 31 May 2014 in the Pirkanmaa area. We included cases in which Emergency Medical Services participated in the treatment of cardiac arrest patients in nursing homes and primary care facilities. Emergency Medical Services attended to a total of 355 cardiac arrest patients, and 65 patients (18%) met the inclusion criteria. The included patients were generally older than 65 years, but otherwise heterogeneous. Nineteen patients (29%) had a valid do-not-attempt-resuscitation order, but paramedics were not informed about it in 10 (53%) of those cases. Eight (12%) of the 65 patients survived to hospital admission and 3 (5%) survived to hospital discharge with a neurologically favourable outcome. Two patients were alive 90 days after the cardiac arrest; both were younger than 70 years of age and had ventricular fibrillation as primary rhythm. There were no survivors...Continue Reading

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Jun 11, 2020·Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica·Heidi KangasniemiSanna Hoppu
Jul 22, 2020·Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica·Hans Friberg, Torben Wisborg
Oct 4, 2019·Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine·Heidi KangasniemiSanna Hoppu

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