A seven-year follow-up of discharged patients after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with respect to ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Abstract

ntroduction. The aim of this multicentre prospective study was to describe the seven-year survival of patients, from the region of East Bohemia, after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), occurring between 2002 and 2004.

The main focus of this study was on the survival of patients with ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Keywords

• cardiac arrest
• myocardial infarction
• out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
• sudden cardiac death
• survivors
• ventricular fibrillation