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Impact of puberty as threshold to differentiate outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest care groups: a nationwide observational study in France
- Source :
- Emergency Medicine Journal. 39:363-369
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- BMJ, 2021.
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Abstract
- BackgroundSince 2005, the international guidelines for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) use puberty to differentiate paediatric and adult care. This threshold is mainly relied on the more frequent respiratory aetiologies in children. Hitherto, to the best of our knowledge, no study has compared the characteristics and outcomes of non-pubescent children, adolescents and adult patients with OHCA. In this study, we intended to describe the characteristics, outcome and factors associated with survival of patients who experienced OHCA in the three groups: children, adolescents (pubescentMethodsData from the French national cardiac arrest registry (2012–2017) were used in this nationwide observational study. Victims of OHCA who were ResultsWe included 934 children, 433 adolescents and 26 952 adults. Respiratory aetiology was more frequent and shockable rhythm less frequent in children compared with adolescents (25.5% vs 17.2%, p=0.025 and 2.4% vs 6.8%, pConclusionFrequency of respiratory aetiologies and shockable rhythm were common in adolescents and adults and different between children and adolescents. These results indicate that puberty as a threshold in international guidelines seems to be relevant.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Emergency Medical Services
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Adult care
Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine
Logistic regression
Out of hospital cardiac arrest
medicine
Humans
Registries
Child
Aged
Adult patients
business.industry
Puberty
Significant difference
General Medicine
Shockable rhythm
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Emergency Medicine
Etiology
Observational study
France
business
Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14720213 and 14720205
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Emergency Medicine Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....624e3ccbdbf88e30f748a11d5dd45abd