Jocelyn Berdowski

TL;DR: The weighted incidence estimate was significantly higher in studies including adults than in those including adults and paediatrics for treated OHCAs, and the percentage of VF and survival to discharge rates were lower in Asia than in Europe, North America, Asia, or Australia.

TL;DR: Spontaneous words that the caller uses to describe the patient may aid in faster and better recognition of a cardiac arrest in emergency calls, which decreases survival.

TL;DR: In this population-based cohort study, the use of an onsite AED leads to a doubling of neurologically intact survival, and the survival benefit of dispatched AED use was much smaller than that of onsiteAED use.

TL;DR: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest accounts for a significant proportion of pediatric mortality, and cardiac causes are the most prevalent causes of OHCA.

TL;DR: This study establishes the favourable outcome of exercise-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and should have direct implications for public health programs to prevent exercised sudden death.