From: Police as first reponders improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival
Police | Non-EMS | EMS | Total | |||||
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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 |