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- J Gallagher, J D Groarke, and G Courtney.
- Dept of Medicine, St Luke's Hospital, Kilkenny. gallaj@eircom.net
- Ir Med J. 2006 Jun 1; 99 (6): 177-9.
AbstractAll acute hospitals have a cardiac arrest team. A retrospective study of cardiac arrest calls prospectively recorded over a 24-month period was performed. 174 cardiac arrest calls were analyzed with 76 of these calls being false alarms. Only 16.5% of patients survived to discharge. Median age of patients suffering a cardiopulmonary arrest was 71.5 years (range 22-96 years) with an arrest occurring a median of 2 days post admission (range 0-83 days). A pilot study to determine physiological deterioration in the 24 hours prior to cardiac arrest was also performed. 45% of patients demonstrated a physiological deterioration over this time. Recommendations are made regarding the management of in-hospital cardiac arrests.
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