Survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in relation to sex: a nationwide registry-based study.

There is no author summary for this article yet. Authors can add summaries to their articles on ScienceOpen to make them more accessible to a non-specialist audience.

Abstract

Crude survival has increased following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). We aimed to study sex-related differences in patient characteristics and survival during a 10-year study period.

Related collections

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Resuscitation

Title: Resuscitation

ISSN (Electronic): 1873-1570

ISSN (Print): 0300-9572

Publication date (Electronic): Sep 2014

Volume: 85

Issue: 9

Affiliations

[1 ] Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark. Electronic address: Mads.Wissenberg.Joergensen@regionh.dk.

[2 ] Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark.

[3 ] The Emergency Medical Services, Capital Region of Denmark, Telegrafvej 5, 2750 Ballerup, Denmark.

[4 ] The Department of Anesthesiology, Cardiovascular Research Center, Aalborg University Hospital, Sdr. Skovvej 15, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark.

[5 ] The Prehospital Emergency Medical Services, Central Denmark Region, Olof Palmes Allé 34, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark.

[6 ] The Heart Centre, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej 9, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

[7 ] Department of Cardiology, Copenhagen University Hospital Gentofte, Niels Andersens Vej 65, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark; The National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Øster Farimagsgade 5, 1353 Copenhagen, Denmark.

[8 ] The Institute of Health, Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Niels Jernes Vej 12, 9220 Aalborg East, Denmark.

Article

Publisher Item ID: S0300-9572(14)00597-8

DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2014.06.008

PubMed ID: 24960430

SO-VID: 888e5ba8-77f1-4a94-a40e-d8b354ddae1b

History

Keywords: Cardiac arrest,Resuscitation,Sex,Survival

Data availability:

Keywords: Cardiac arrest, Resuscitation, Sex, Survival

Comments

Comment on this article

scite_

Cited by 38

See all cited by