AHA: In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care Needs Resuscitation

AHA: In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Care Needs Resuscitation

More should be done to improve the survival rate for the 200,000 adults and children who have an in-hospital cardiac arrest each year, the American Heart Association said.

One problem is the assumption that the advances in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest care directly apply to in-hospital arrests, “with no consideration given to the different causes and burden of comorbidities,” according to an AHA consensus statement.

It may be better for the science of resuscitation if in-hospital and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest guidelines weren’t “lumped” together, writing committee chair Laurie Morrison, MD, MSc, and colleagues wrote inCirculation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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