Out-of-hospital adult cardiac arrests in a university hospital in central Saudi Arabia

Abstract

Objectives:To report the characteristics of adult out-of-hospital arrest patients and their outcomes in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Methods:This is a prospective descriptive study of out-of-hospital adult arrests incident transported to King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia between July 2012 and September 2013.Results:A total of 96 adult patients were enrolled in this study. Males represented 62.5% of the participants. The mean age of the study population was 58.9 years, and specifically 30.8 years for traumatic arrests, and 62.9 for non-traumatic. An over-all mortality rate of 95.8% was documented, as well as a low rate of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation being performed, and a family member transported most patients to the hospital.Conclusion:A low survival rate for non-traumatic out-of-hospital adult arrest patients and a 100% mortality rate in traumatic arrests were discovered.

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“…ey are also afraid to make a mistake particularly with no AED device available in their workplace [19]. Many studies explained that poor availability, adequacy, distribution of AED, and training might be major factors that stand behind the OHCA high mortality rate [5,6,14,21].…”

“…In Saudi Arabia, the cardiovascular disease mortality rate is 37% according to the World Health Organization (WHO) statistics [4]. A study conducted in Riyadh city in Saudi Arabia reported a high mortality rate of 95.8% among adult OHCA patients; this study reported that poor training of cardiopulmonary pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and nonutilization of an automated external defibrillator (AED) might be the major factors that stand behind the OHCA high mortality rate [5].…”

Out-of-hospital adult cardiac arrests in a university hospital in Central Saudi Arabia

“…I read the article on out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in its entirety and with a great interest 1. Bin Salleeh et al1 original research on OHCA is an outstanding milestone since Conroy and Jolin’s research in late 1990’s 2.…”

“…Bin Salleeh et al1 original research on OHCA is an outstanding milestone since Conroy and Jolin’s research in late 1990’s 2. The Bin Salleeh et al research should lead to a collaborative nationwide effort among Universities and tertiary level hospitals in publishing data related to OHCA and to address the paucity of OHCA prevalence report in the Middle East 3.…”

“…McNally4 stated that communities that do not measure their OHCA outcome are not only unable to gauge their performance, but they lack a reference point for quality improvement. Bin Salleeh et al1 study provides a measure to help us appraise and use as reference. What remains is for the region to have a registry.…”