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Submitted on April 20, 2007
Accepted on October 5, 2007

Survival Is Similar After Standard Treatment and Chest Compression Only in Out-of-Hospital Bystander Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

Katarina Bohm RN, Mårten Rosenqvist MD, PhD, Johan Herlitz MD, PhD, Jacob Hollenberg MD, and Leif Svensson MD, PhD^*

From the Department of Cardiology and Stockholm Prehospital Centre, Karolinska Institute, South General Hospital (K.B.); Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institute, South General Hospital (M.R., J. Hollenberg); Department of Cardiology, University of Göteborg, Salgrenska Hospital (J. Herlitz); and Stockholm Prehospital Centre, Karolinska Institute, South General Hospital (L.S.), Stockholm, Sweden.

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: leif.svensson{at}sodersjukhuset.se.

Background—We sought to compare the 1-month survival rates among patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who had been given bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in relation to whether they had received standard CPR with chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation or chest compression only.

Methods and Results—All patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who received bystander CPR and who were reported to the Swedish Cardiac Arrest Register between 1990 and 2005 were included. Crew-witnessed cases were excluded. Among 11 275 patients, 73% (n=8209) received standard CPR, and 10% (n=1145) received chest compression only. There was no significant difference in 1-month survival between patients who received standard CPR (1-month survival=7.2%) and those who received chest compression only (1-month survival=6.7%).

Conclusions—Among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest who received bystander CPR, there was no significant difference in 1-month survival between a standard CPR program with chest compression plus mouth-to-mouth ventilation and a simplified version of CPR with chest compression only.

Key words: cardiopulmonary resuscitation • heart arrest • survival

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