Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a devastating and dramatic event, with a
mortality of around 90% prior to hospitalization and a severe in-hospital outcome,
since less than 6 percent of people who experience an OHCA survive to hospital discharge
[
[1]
]. However, around half of the patients admitted to hospital who presented ventricular
tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation at the time of resuscitation can nowadays
survive and can be discharged from hospital with reasonable neurological conditions
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Publication history
Published online: January 28, 2020
Accepted:
January 20,
2020
Received:
January 7,
2020
Footnotes
A commentary on the article “ Rey JR, Caro-Codón J, Rodríguez Sotelo L, López-de-Sa E, Rosillo SO, González Fernández Ó, Fernández de Bobadilla J, Iniesta ÁM, Peña Conde L, Antorrena Miranda I, Armada E, Ruiz Cantador J, López-Sendón JL. Long term clinical outcomes in survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Eur J Intern Med. 2019 Dec 16. pii: S0953-6205(19)30427-3. doi: 10.1016/j.ejim.2019.11.024 [Epub ahead of print].
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