Heart : official journal of the British Cardiac Society

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Heart · Dec 2005

Editorial Comment

Reality of out of hospital cardiac arrest.

The high mortality rates associated with out of hospital cardiac arrest, particularly those occurring in the home, stress the need for early treatment in the form of publicly accessible external defibrillators.

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Heart · Dec 2005

Multicenter Study

Circumstances of out of hospital cardiac arrest in patients with ischaemic heart disease.

To discover the circumstances of out of hospital cardiac death irrespective of resuscitation attempts. ⋯ The burden of out of hospital cardiac arrest is mainly in the home but most victims have premonitory symptoms. Public education to seek help urgently for new or prolonged chest pain seems the most promising method to address the problem.

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