Characteristics of adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the National Emergency Medical Services Information System.

Hei Kit ChanMasashi OkuboClifton W CallawayN Clay MannHenry E Wang

Published in: Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open (2020)

Using information available in the 2016 NEMSIS data, we estimate that there were over 570,000 reported adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the United States. These results highlight the challenges of characterizing the epidemiology of adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States.

Keyphrases

emergency medical
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cardiac arrest
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