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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on November 30, 2005
European Heart Journal 2006 27(4):377-378; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi670
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© The European Society of Cardiology 2005. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Post-discharge survival following pre-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest owing to cardiac aetiology

Johan Herlitz*

Division of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, SE 413 45 Göteborg, Sweden

* Corresponding author. E-mail address: johan.herlitz@hjl.gu.se

This editorial refers to ‘Post-discharge survival following pre-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest due to cardiac aetiology: temporal trends and impact of changes in clinical management’{dagger} by J.P. Pell et al., on page 406

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In the western world, a large percentage of patients who die do so as a result of heart disease, predominantly coronary artery disease (CAD). Among these patients, the majority die prior to hospital admission because of sudden cardiac death.

During the last three decades, a tremendous effort has been made in order to increase survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) via the introduction of the chain of survival concept.1 However, short-term survival has not improved as dramatically as was forecast.

In all probability, the decrease in the occurrence of ventricular fibrillation as . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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