The quality of care and long-term mortality of out of hospital cardiac arrest survivors after acute myocardial infarction: a nationwide cohort study.

Aims: The long-term outcomes of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors are not well known.

Methods And Results: Using the Myocardial Ischaemia National Audit Project (MINAP) registry, linked to Office for National Statistics mortality data, we analysed 661 326 England, Wales, and Northern Ireland acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients; 14 127 (2%) suffered OHCA and survived beyond 30 days of hospitalization. Patients dying within 30 days of admission were excluded.