• Srinivas Ramaka, Noreen T Nazir, Vemuri S Murthy, Terry Vanden Hoek, Bellur S Prabhakar, Ravikumar Chodavarapu, Sundaresh Peri, Anveshini Uppuleti, Rakesh Jatoth, Sindgi Vasudeva Murthy, Adil Sarvar Mohammed, and Stevan M Weine.
• Principal Investigator WACAR Study, Srinivasa Heart Centre, Warangal, Telangana, India. Electronic address: srinivasaheartcentre@outlook.com.
• Indian Heart J. 2020 Nov 1; 72 (6): 517-523.

ObjectiveOut-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) is a global public health problem. There is inadequate data on OHCA in India. The Warangal Area out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest Registry (WACAR) was planned to understand OHCA in a regional setting in India.MethodsWACAR is a prospective one-year observational cohort study of OHCA in the Warangal area, Telangana, India. The study included 814 subjects of OHCA of presumed cardiac etiology brought to the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Hospital during January 1, 2018, and December 31, 2018. The data collected included; standard Utstein variables with additional data on clinical characteristics (modified Utstein template).ResultsThe majority of OHCA subjects were male with a median age of 60 years, and mostly occurring in residential locations within 1 h of onset of symptoms. Individuals with knowledge of CVD risk factors were more likely to report symptoms before OHCA. Data on resuscitation characteristics were inadequate.ConclusionsThe WACAR study provides baseline data regarding OHCA in a regional setting in India. The study demonstrated barriers involving data collection, patient knowledge of CVD risk factors and disease, and access to healthcare, which; impacted the data registry.Copyright © 2020 Cardiological Society of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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