Arrest Rhythms
The rhythm with the highest rate of survival in cardiac arrest
VF/VT shockable rhythms
Who is the NZRC?
The environment that yields the most survivors of primary cardiac arrest
What is urban/public
The most common cause of arrest
What is cardiac causes?
The reason urban public arrests are more survivable
What is more likely to receive early CPR from bystanders and defibrillation from public access AEDs, more likely to be a primary arrest, and ambulance response times are faster?
The rhythm with the lowest rate of survival in cardiac arrest
Aystole
The releaser of best practice recommendations for cardiac arrest globally
Who is ILCOR? (International Liason Committee on Resus)
The group that HP-CPR is designed for
What is those who have premature, witnessed, primary arrests with an initial shockable rhythm?
The second most common cause of arrest
What is respiratory causes?
The people who are included in cardiac arrest statistics
What is everyone who is attended by an ambulance service where a resuscitation is attempted?
The rhythm with the second highest rate of survival in cardiac arrest
PEA
The two biggest cardiac arrest journals in the world
What are Resuscitation and Circulation?
The reason that public arrests are more survivable/more likely to be a primary arrest.
What is they are usually well enough otherwise to be in public, and not at home?
The third most common cause of arrest
What is hanging
The survival to discharge rate in PEA for North American data
What is 8.7%?
You are this many times more likely to survive a cardiac arrest if you are in a shockable rhythm
5-6
This city has a ten step program used to improve cardiac arrest survival rates in communities.
What is Seattle?
The primary survey order best suited to primary arrests.
What is CAB?
The three main causes of arrthmogenic arrests.
What is arrythmias/MI, TCA poisoning, and crush injury?
The survival to discharge rate in asystole for North American data
What is 2.1%?
The reason VF/VT rhythms are more survivable.
What is they are primary arrests that are more likely to have been responded to quickly (haven't devolved to asystole yet), and are shockable?
The consensus template used to standardise cardiac arrest data
What is the Utstein Template?
What is less time for ischaemic damage/neurologic damage to set in?
What is unconcious with no obvious signs of life?
How we get 'cause of death' statistics
What is partially from death certificate data and partially from autopsy results?