Police as first reponders improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival

BMC Emergency Medicine

Table 1 Demographic and OHCA characteristics stratified by first responder (2014 – 2020)

	Police		Non-EMS		EMS		Total
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%
Total OHCA	107	17	196	31.2	325	51.8	628	100.0
Year
2014	4	5.5	26	35.6	43	58.9	73	100.0
2015	9	16.1	19	33.9	28	50.0	56	100.0
2016	10	14.7	26	38.2	32	47.1	68	100.0
2017	9	11.4	24	30.4	46	58.2	79	100.0
2018	22	22.7	26	26.8	49	50.5	97	100.0
2019	27	19.3	38	27.1	75	53.6	140	100.0
2020	26	22.6	37	32.2	52	45.2	115	100.0
Gender
Male	88	82.2	139	70.9	236	72.6	463	73.7
Female	19	17.8	57	29.1	89	27.4	165	26.3
	Chi-Square Test p = 0,082
Age: mean (standrad deviation)
Total	61.9 (15.7)		65.7 (15.7)		67.6 (14.2)		66.0 (15.1)
Male	62.3 (15.1)		64.1 (16.0)		66.6 (13.5)		65.0 (14.7)
Female	60 (18.3)		69.6 (14.3)		70.3 (15.8)		68.9 (15.8)
	Two-way ANOVA p = 0,001 for gender and p = 0.005 for first responder
Witnessed OHCA
Yes	80	74.8	162	82.7	255	78.5	497	79.1
No	27	25.2	34	17.3	64	19.7	125	19.9
Unknown	-	-	-	-	6	1.8	6	0.9
	Chi-Square Test p = 0,262
Shockable rhyhtm/shock
Yes	36	33.6	58	29.6	108	33.2	202	32.2
No	71	66.4	138	70.4	217	66.8	426	67.8
	Chi-Square Test p = 0,645
Bystander CPR
Yes	32	29.9	54	27.6	130	40.0	216	35.8
Family	17	53.1	23	42.6	82	63.1	122	15.1
Non family bystander	15	46.9	31	57.4	48	36.9	94	20.7
Telephone Assisted	12	37.5	13	24.1	32	24.6	57	9.1
Location
Home	68	63.6	101	51.5	229	70.5	398	63.4
Public street	26	24.3	42	21.4	35	10.8	103	16.4
Work place	2	1.9	5	2.6	9	2.8	16	2.6
Public builiding/área	11	10.3	11	5.6	21	6.5	43	6.9
Health facility/nursing home	0	0.0	30	15.3	8	2.5	38	6.1
During transfer	0	0.0	3	1.5	14	4.3	17	2.7
Other	0	0.0	4	2.0	9	2.8	13	2.1
ROSC p-value = 0.61
Yes	46	43.0	77	39.3	141	43.4	264	42.0
No	61	57.0	119	60.7	184	56.6	364	58.0
Survival at hospital discharge p value = 0.97
CPC1-2	19	17.8	34	17.4	44	13.5	97	15.5
CPC3-4	0	0.0	2	1.0	3	0.9	5	0.8

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