by Lauren Lacroix, Richard Hoang | Dec 21, 2017 | cardiac arrest, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Most Viewed
According to the AHA guidelines, in 2016 the annual incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the US was roughly 360,000 and was 209,000 for in-hospital cardiac arrest. In Canada, we see 40,000 OHCA per year (Mozaffarian 2016). Data from the ROC Epistry...
by Simeon Mitchell, Robert Suttie | Nov 9, 2017 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries
Many aspects of cardiac arrest care are likely to change in the not-so-distant future. Let’s take a system-level view of cardiac arrest care and see what we can do to conservatively start to move in the direction of more regionalized care. We’ll also take a...