Years of Potential Life Lost and Mean Age of Adults Experiencing Nontraumatic, Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests
abstract
This abstract is available on the publisher's site.
Access this abstract nowApproximately 1,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) are assessed by emergency medical services in the United States every day, and approximately 90% of patients do not survive, leading to substantial years of potential life lost (YPLL). Chicago emergency medical services data were used to assess changes in mean age and YPLL from nontraumatic OHCA in adults in biennial cycles during 2014-2021. Among 21,070 reported nontraumatic OHCAs during 2014-2021, approximately 60% occurred among men and 57% among non-Hispanic Black or African American (Black) persons. YPLL increased from 52,044 during 2014-2015 to 88,788 during 2020-2021 (p = 0.002) and mean age decreased from 64.7 years during 2014-2015, to 62.7 years during 2020-2021. Decrease in mean age occurred among both men (p<0.001) and women (p = 0.002) and was largest among Black men. Mean age decreased among patients without presumed cardiac etiology from 56.3 to 52.5 years (p<0.001) and among patients with nonshockable rhythm from 65.5 to 62.7 years (p<0.001). Further study is needed to assess whether similar trends are occurring elsewhere, and to understand the mechanisms that underlie these trends in Chicago because these mechanisms could help guide prevention efforts. Increased public awareness of the risk of cardiac arrest and knowledge of how to intervene as a bystander could help decrease associated mortality.
Click on any of these tags to subscribe to Topic Alerts. Once subscribed, you can get a single, daily email any time PracticeUpdate publishes content on the topics that interest you.
Visit your Preferences and Settings section to Manage All Topic Alerts
Additional Info
Disclosure statements are available on the authors' profiles:
Years of Potential Life Lost and Mean Age of Adults Experiencing Nontraumatic, Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests - Chicago, 2014-2021
MMWR Morb. Mortal. Wkly. Rep. 2024 Mar 07;73(9)199-203, S Khosla, M Del Rios, P Kotini-Shah, J Weber, T Vanden HoekFrom MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.