Bystander CPR may improve survival in exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest: BJSM
Canada: A new study shows that exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) is more common in men and is usually accompanied by a shockable ventricular arrhythmia, emphasizing the significance of quick access to defibrillation.Therefore Bystander CPR may play and important role in improving survival in exercise-related sudden cardiac arrest
This study was conducted by Nicholas Grubic & team and the results were published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine on 1st December 2021.
This study was a systematic review with the goal of evaluating bystander interventions and survival rates following exercise-related SCA. From the beginning of the study through November/December 2020, MEDLINE, EMBASE, PubMed, CINAHL, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane Library, and grey literature sources were searched.
Observational studies examining a population of exercise-related SCA (out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred during exercise or within 1 hour of cessation of activity) where bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and/or automated external defibrillator (AED) use were reported, as well as survival outcomes. The median (IQR) percentage of bystander CPR and bystander AED usage, as well as the median (IQR) rate of survival to hospital discharge, were determined across all included studies.
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