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Dallas, TX<\/strong> – Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest<\/a> was the third leading cause of \u201chealth loss due to disease\u201d in the United States behind ischemic heart disease and low back\/neck pain in 2016, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, <\/em>an American Heart Association journal.<\/p>\nThis groundbreaking study is the first to estimate disability-adjusted life years (DALY) \u2013 which measures the sum of years of life lost prematurely and years lived with disability due to a disease \u2013 among those who experienced non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the United States.<\/p>\n
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Cardiac arrest is an abrupt loss of the heart\u2019s ability to pump, which leads to death within minutes if not treated. Its effect on years lost to premature death and disability is currently unknown.<\/p>\n
Using the national Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) database, researchers examined 59,752 cases of adult, non-traumatic, Emergency Medical Services (EMS)-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from 2016. <\/sup><\/p>\n Researchers also measured the effects of bystander intervention \u2013 CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) application \u2013 on the disease burden of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Focusing their analysis on a subpopulation of bystander-witnessed out-of-hospital cardiac arrest events, researchers found that on a national level:<\/p>\n Researchers noted that women tended to have higher DALY values than men, as well as Caucasians compared to African Americans. Additionally, Hispanic race was associated with higher DALY compared with Caucasians.<\/p>\n \u201cMany cardiac arrests occur outside of the hospital, and our results show that bystander interventions reduce death and disability, underscoring the importance of bystander CPR and AED education, as well as national cardiac arrest surveillance,\u201d said Ryan A. Coute, D.O., lead study author and Emergency Medicine resident at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.<\/p>\n [320left]Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest third leading cause of Disease-Related Health LossResearchers hope that this study may help focus public health policies, resources and future research on resuscitation science.<\/p>\n \u201cCardiac arrest is unique because survival is dependent on the timely response of bystanders, medical dispatch, EMS personnel, physicians and hospital staff,\u201d Coute said. \u201cWe hope that the results of our study provide an opportunity to emphasize the fact that \u2018cardiac arrest\u2019 and \u2018heart attack\u2019 are not synonymous. Our results may also help inform funding agencies and policy makers regarding how to best utilize limited resources to improve public health.\u201d<\/p>\n Co-authors are Brian H. Nathanson, Ph.D., Ashish Panchal, M.D., Ph.D., Michael C. Kurz, M.D., Nathan L. Haas, M.D., Bryan McNally, M.D., Robert W. Neumar, M.D., Ph.D. and Timothy J. Mader, M.D. Author disclosures are on the manuscript.<\/p>\n Researchers reported no source of funding and author disclosures are detailed in the manuscript. CARES receives funding from the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association.<\/p>\n Additional Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes Journal Report Dallas, TX – Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was the third leading cause of \u201chealth loss due to disease\u201d in the United States behind ischemic heart disease and low back\/neck pain in 2016, according to new research in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, an American Heart Association journal. This groundbreaking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[2538,11572,3833,6774,3089,4030,11190,5929,3290],"class_list":["post-14436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-american-heart-association","tag-automated-external-defibrillators","tag-cardiac-arrest","tag-circulation","tag-cpr","tag-dallas-tx","tag-emergency-medical-services","tag-ems","tag-ischemic-heart-disease"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14437,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14436\/revisions\/14437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Researchers found:<\/h3>\n
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