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    Trends in traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western Australia from 1997 to 2014

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    Beck, B.
    Tohira, Hideo
    Bray, J.
    Straney, L.
    Brown, E.
    Inoue, M.
    Williams, Teresa
    McKenzie, N.
    Celenza, A.
    Bailey, P.
    Finn, J.
    Date
    2015
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Beck, B. and Tohira, H. and Bray, J. and Straney, L. and Brown, E. and Inoue, M. and Williams, T. et al. 2015. Trends in traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Perth, Western Australia from 1997 to 2014. Resuscitation. 98: pp. 79-84.
    Source Title
    Resuscitation
    DOI
    10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.10.015
    School
    School of Nursing and Midwifery
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7926
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Aim: This study aims to describe and compare traumatic and medical out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) occurring in Perth, Western Australia, between 1997 and 2014. Methods: The St John Ambulance Western Australia (SJA-WA) OHCA Database was used to identify all adult (≥16 years) cases. We calculated annual crude and age-sex standardised incidence rates (ASIRs) for traumatic and medical OHCA and investigated trends over time. Results: Over the study period, SJA-WA attended 1,354 traumatic OHCA and 16,076 medical OHCA cases. The mean annual crude incidence rate of traumatic OHCA in adults attended by SJA-WA was 6.0 per 100,000 (73.9 per 100,000 for medical cases), with the majority resulting from motor vehicle collisions (56.7%). We noted no change to either incidence or mechanism of injury over the study period (p > 0.05). Compared to medical OHCA, traumatic OHCA cases were less likely to receive bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) (20.4% vs. 24.5%, p = 0.001) or have resuscitation commenced by paramedics (38.9% vs. 44.8%, p < 0.001). However, rates of bystander CPR and resuscitation commenced by paramedics increased significantly over time in traumatic OHCA (p < 0.001). In cases where resuscitation was commenced by paramedics there was no difference in the proportion who died at the scene (37.2% traumatic vs. 34.3% medical, p = 0.17), however, fewer traumatic OHCAs survived to hospital discharge (1.7% vs. 8.7%, p < 0.001). Conclusions: Despite temporal increases in rates of bystander CPR and paramedic resuscitation, traumatic OHCA survival remains poor with only nine patients surviving from traumatic OHCA over the 18-year period.

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