Table 1.

Questions to be answered by the results of Silesian Registry of Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

What is the frequency of OHCA in the Polish population?

What is the frequency of ROSC?

Which factors may affect the occurrence of ROSC?

What percentage of OHCA patients survive until admission to hospital?

What is the in-hospital/30-day mortality of patients with ROSC?

What percentage of patients who survive beyond 12 months after OHCA?

What factors affect the prognosis in patients with OHCA?

What is the percentage of OHCA patients whose primary cause of OHCA is cardiovascular disease?

What percentage of patients undergo coronary angiography/percutaneous coronary intervention during the first hospitalization after OHCA?

What percentage of patients with OHCA undergo implantable cardioverter-defibrillator implantation during the first year after OHCA?

What percentage of patients with OHCA undergo cardiological/neurological rehabilitation within a year after OHCA?

OHCA — out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; ROSC — return of spontaneous circulation