Table 2.
Number of OHCAs, AED use, ROSCs and survival across the different European countries during the EuReCa TWO period (October 2017–December 2017).
| Country | Regional or National Registry | Population Covered (n) | Name of the Registry | OHCAs with EMS Attempted Resuscitation Occurring in the Period Oct 2017–Dec 2017 (EuReCa TWO Period) (n) | OHCAs in the Utstein Comparator Group (UCG) * (n, %) | OHCAs in Which an AED Was Attached before EMS Arrival (n, %) | OHCAs in Which the AED Was Attached by Firefighters, Police Officers or Other FRs (n, %) | OHCAs in Which the AED Was Attached by Bystanders (n, %) | OHCAs in Which an AED Was Attached before EMS Arrival and a Shock Was Delivered (n) | OHCAs in Which the Shock Was Delivered by Firefighters, Police Officers or Other FRs (%) | OHCAs in Which the Shock Was Delivered by Bystanders (%) | ROSC in the UCG (n, %) | Survival at Discharge in the UCG (n, %) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | National | 2,834,000 | Belgian Cardiac Registry (B-CAR) | 377 | 57 (15.1) | 26 (6.9) | 22 (84.6) | 4 (15.4) | 16 (4.2) | 12 (75) | 4 (25) | 31 (54.4) | 16 (28.1) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | Regional | 110,979 | Utstein Resuscitation Registry | 22 | 1 (4.5) | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | 0 (0) |
| Finland | Regional | 655,395 | Helsinki out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry | 76 | 19 (25) | 6 (7.9) | N/A | N/A | 3 (3.9) | N/A | N/A | 13 (68) | 7 (37) |
| France | National | 17,833,002 | Electronic Registry of Cardiac Arrests (RéAC) | 2604 | 177 (6.8) | 2066 (79.3) ** | 1874 (90.7) | 192 (9.3) | 418 (16) | 368 (88) | 50 (12) | 95 (53.7) | 40 (22.6) |
| Germany | National | 26,600,000 | Deutsches Reanimations Register (German Resuscitation Registry) | 6969 | 524 (7.5) | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A | 372 (71) | 30 (17) |
| Greece | Regional | 1,500,000 | National Center For Emergency Care (Northern Greece, Thessaloniki) | 71 | 22 (31) | 5 (7) | N/A | N/A | 1 (1.4) | N/A | N/A | 8 (36) | 1 (4.6) |
| Ireland | National | 4,757,976 | Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Register (OHCAR) | 594 | 72 (12.1) | 21 (3.5) | 17 (81) | 4 (19) | 21 (3.5) | 15 (71.4) | 6 (28.6) | 28 (39) | 18 (25) |
| Italy | Regional | 545,810 | Lombardia Cardiac Arrest Registry (LombardiaCARe) | 152 | 17 (11.2) | 4 (2.6) | 0 (0) | 4 (100) | 2 (1.3) | 0 (0) | 2 (100) | 9 (52.9) | 3 (17.6) |
| Luxembourg | National | 602,005 | Cardlux | 140 | 24 (17.1) | 12 (8.6) | N/A | N/A | 5 (3.6) | N/A | N/A | 10 (41.6) | 4 (16.6) |
| The Netherlands | Regional | 2,578,552 | Amsterdam Resuscitation Studies (ARREST) | 314 | 81 (25.8) | 183 (58.2) | 146 (79.8) | 37 (20.2) | 74 (23.6) | 52 (70) | 22 (30) | 5 (69) | 33 (40.7) |
| Norway | National | 5,336,494 | Norwegian Cardiac Arrest Registry | 848 | 95 (11.2) | 103 (12.1) | 57 (55.3) | 46 (44.7) | 30 (3.5) | N/A | N/A | 56 (59) | 42 (44.2) |
| Romania | National | 4,086,753 | Registrul Roman al Stopului Cardiac (Romanian Registry of Cardiac Arrest) | 512 | 30 (5.8) | 27 (5.3) | 27 (100) | 0 (0) | 12 (2.3) | 12 (100) | 0 (0) | N/A | N/A |
| Russian Federation | Regional | 1,913,731 | Crimean Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Registry (COHCARR) *** | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Serbia | National | 1,227,069 | EuReCa Srbija | 409 | 42 (10.3) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 8 (19.1) | 16 (38) |
| Slovakia | Other | 3,300,000 | Ad hoc for EuReCa TWO | 693 | 93 (13.4) | 6 (0.9) | N/A | N/A | 2 (0.3) | N/A | N/A | 45 (48.4) | 24 (25.8) |
| Slovenia | Other | 1,191,479 | Ad hoc for EuReCa TWO | 178 | 35 (19.7) | 13 (7.3) | 10 (76.9) | 3 (23.1) | 11 (6.2) | 8 (73) | 2 (18) | 22 (63) | 11 (31.4) |
| Spain | National | 42,750,768 | Out-of-Hospital Spanish Registry of Cardiac Arrest (OHSCAR) | 2148 | 342 (15.9) | 75 (3.5) | 44 (58.7) | 31 (41.3) | 38 (1.8) | 13 (34.2) | 25 (65.8) | 209 (61.1) | 100 (29.2) |
| Sweden | National | 10,120,242 | The Swedish Registry of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (SRCR) | 1466 | 171 (11.7) | 336 (25) | 269 (80) | 44 (13.1) | 84 (5.7) | 46 (55) | 27 (32) | 96 (56.1) | 101 (59.1) |
| Switzerland | Regional | 353,700 | Ticino Registry Cardiac Arrest (TiReCA) | 53 | 9 (17) | 19 (35.8) | 12 (63.1) | 7 (36.8) | 2 (3.8) | 1 (50) | 1 (50) | 4 (44.4) | 2 (22.2) |
AED: automated external defibrillator; OHCA: out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. * Utstein comparator group: bystander-witnessed for the first shockable rhythm. ** In France, the emergency medical system is by definition medicalized. Firefighters are trained in BLS and routinely alerted in case of an OHCA but they are considered not to be part of the EMS response and, therefore, are classified as first responders. *** The Crimean Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation Registry (COHCARR) started to collect data from 1 January 2018 onwards.