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. 1995 Mar;12(1):34–39. doi: 10.1136/emj.12.1.34

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: two and a half years experience of an accident and emergency department in Hong Kong.

T W Wong 1, K C Yeung 1
PMCID: PMC1342516  PMID: 7640827

Abstract

The results are presented of 2 1/2 years of experience of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests who were resuscitated in an accident and emergency department (A&E) attached to an acute district hospital in Hong Kong. Out of 263 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest as a result of a variety of causes only seven patients survived (3%) and among the 135 patients with cardiac aetiology only four survived (3%). Ways to improve the outcome for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are discussed.

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