• Resuscitation · Jun 2019

    Observational Study

    Sports activity and paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest at schools in Japan.

    • Junya Sado, Kosuke Kiyohara, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Satoshi Matsui, Mamoru Ayusawa, Masahiko Nitta, Taku Iwami, Ken Nakata, Tomotaka Sobue, Yuri Kitamura, and SPIRITS investigators.
    • Medicine for Sports and Performing Arts, Department of Health and Sport Sciences, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, 2-2 Yamada-Oka, Suita 565-0871, Japan.
    • Resuscitation. 2019 Jun 1; 139: 33-40.

    BackgroundSudden cardiac death during exercise or sports is an important problem among young athletes and non-athletes. An understanding of the epidemiological features of sports-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) among children is crucial for planning approaches for prevention and better outcomes of paediatric OHCAs. We assessed the characteristics and outcomes of sports-related OHCA among children at schools in Japan to prevent sports-related paediatric OHCA at schools.MethodsThe Stop and Prevent cardIac aRrest, Injury, and Trauma in Schools (SPIRITS) is a nationwide, prospective, observational study linking databases of two nationally representative registries. Data on the characteristics and outcomes of sports-related paediatric OHCA at schools in Japan were obtained from these databases.ResultsBetween 2008 and 2015, 188 sports-related paediatric OHCAs due to presumed cardiac origin occurred. The greatest proportion of OHCA during or after sports was due to long-distance running (21.8%), followed by soccer/futsal (13.3%), basketball (12.2%), and baseball/rubber-ball baseball (11.2%). We also assessed the association between prehospital factors and one-month survival with favourable neurological outcome after sports-related OHCA. The proportions of ventricular fibrillation as the first documented rhythm, bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), and public-access defibrillation (PAD) were 87.8%, 87.2%, and 63.3%, respectively. Compared with the non-PAD group, the adjusted odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of the PAD group was 3.64 (1.78-7.45).ConclusionsIn Japan, 188 schoolchildren experienced OHCAs of cardiac origin occurring during or after sports activity at schools during the 8-year period. Increasing PAD is essential to enhance better neurological outcome after sports-related OHCA among students.Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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