Singap Med J
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Systematic reviews form a potential method for overcoming the barriers faced by clinicians when trying to access and interpret evidence to inform their practice. This fourth article in the Evidence-Based Medicine and Healthcare series of the Singapore Medical Journal introduces readers to systematic reviews, outlining why they are important, describing their methods and providing readers with the skills to recognise and understand a reliable review.
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Little information is available regarding the outcome of children in our local population who sustained pre-hospital cardiac arrest. This study was performed to determine the survival rate among children after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, to describe the epidemiology, and to identify predictors of survival. ⋯ Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in children has a poor prognosis and prolonged resuscitation at the emergency department beyond 30 minutes does not improve survival.