Background: Early bystander interventions are associated with more favorable outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The objective of the present study was to determine whether the type of bystander-patient relationship was associated with survival and neurological outcomes after OHCA in France.
Methods: We analyzed data registered in the French National Cardiac Arrest Registry (RéAC) between July 1st, 2011, and April 30th, 2023.
Aim: To compare walking access times to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) between area-level quintiles of socioeconomic status (SES) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases occurring in 2 major urban regions of Canada and France.
Methods: This was an international, multicenter, retrospective cohort study of adult, non-traumatic OHCA cases in the metropolitan Vancouver (Canada) and Rhône County (France) regions that occurred between 2014 and 2018. We calculated area-level SES for each case, using quintiles of country-specific scores (Q5 = most deprived).
Aim: To describe a cohort of pregnant women having suffered an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and to compare them with nonpregnant women of childbearing age having suffered OHCA.
Methods: Study data were extracted from the French National OHCA Registry between 2011 and 2021. We compared patients in terms of characteristics, care and survival.
Data science is a bridge discipline involving computer science, statistics, and knowledge of the health field. We developed a Jupyter Notebook to enable novice users to easily and autonomously analyze data from social networks. We conducted an experimentation with non-programmer students.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFFrance and Canada prehospital systems and care delivery in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) show substantial differences. This article aims to describe the rationale, design, implementation and expected research implications of the international, population-based, France-Canada registry for OHCAs, namely ReACanROC, which is built from the merging of two nation-wide, population-based, Utstein-style prospectively implemented registries for OHCAs attended to by emergency medical services. Under the supervision of an international steering committee and research network, the ReACanROC dataset will be used to run in-depth analyses on the differences in organisational, practical and geographic predictors of survival after OHCA between France and Canada.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: The aim of the study was to compare outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) between comparable female and male OHCA cohorts in a large nationwide registry.
Methods: This was a national multicentre retrospective, case-control propensity score-matched study based on French National Cardiac Arrest Registry data from 1 July 2011 to 21 September 2017. Female and male survival rates at D30 were compared.
Background: Epinephrine effectiveness and safety are still questioned. It is well known that the effect of epinephrine varies depending on patients' rhythm and time to injection.
Objective: We aimed to assess the association between epinephrine use during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) care and patient 30-day (D30) survival.
Background: With a survival rate of 6 to 11%, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains a healthcare challenge with room for improvement in morbidity and mortality. The guidelines emphasize the highest possible quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and chest compressions (CC). It is essential to minimize CC interruptions, and therefore increase the chest compression fraction (CCF), as this is an independent factor for survival.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAims: There are large differences between emergency medical systems, which may account for variability in outcomes. We seek to compare prehospital organizations, response modes, patient characteristics and outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, between France and Canada, and discuss the need for the first European-North American prehospital research network on out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Methods: Preliminary comparative description of data drawn from two nation-wide, population-based, Utstein-style prospectively implemented registries for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in France and Canada (France: RéAC, Canada: CanROC), covering approximately 80 million people, and soon to be participating in an international research network in 2020.
Rationale, Aims, And Objectives: The human body is regulated by intrinsic factors which follow a 24-hour biological clock. Implications of a circadian rhythm in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are studied but the literature is not consistent. The main objective of our study was to identify temporal cluster of high or low incidence of OHCA occurrence during a day.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To compare intraosseous access with peripheral venous access on adults out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients' clinical outcomes.
Methods: A national retrospective multicentre study was conducted based on the French National Cardiac Arrest Registry. Comparison of patients (intraosseous vs.
Objective: Survival rate of cardiac arrest due to hanging (H-CA) victims is low. Hence, this leads to the question of the utility of resuscitation in these patients. The objective was to investigate whether there are predictive criteria for survival with a good neurological outcome or predictive criteria for non-survival or survival with a poor neurological outcome enabling us to define the termination of resuscitation rules in these patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOut-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is considered an important public health issue but its incidence has not been examined in France. The aim of this study is to define the incidence of OHCA in France and to compare this to other neighbouring countries. Data were extracted from the French OHCA registry.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale, Aims And Objectives: Care quality is a primary concern in health field. In France, the care practice report card (CPRC) is compulsory for practitioners. It is the first step towards the culture of excellence.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale, Aims And Objectives: Neurological emergencies consumed a high amount of resources in emergency department (ED). We aimed to study the effect of the implementation of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dedicated to emergencies on the management of patients admitted in ED for neurological emergencies.
Methods: We enrolled consecutive patients who underwent computed tomography and/or MRI for neurological disorders categorized as the suspicion of stroke and other reasons, over 2 periods that differed according to the priority access to computed tomography in the first period versus priority access to MRI in the second one.
Rationale, Aims And Objectives: The aim of this study was to describe the cohort of persons having experiences fatal and non-fatal drowning events, registered in the French cardiac arrest registry and to identify termination of resuscitation criteria.
Methods: We performed a prospective multicenter study based on data from French cardiac arrest registry database. All patients with cardiac arrest after drowning (CAD) recorded between July 2011 and November 2014 were included.
Introduction: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is an important public health issue with an estimated incidence of 50,000 cases per year in France. Community survival rates for OHCA are still low (approximately 5%). An effective, recognized way to study, assess, and improve OHCA care is to create a standard-format database.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To examine: (i) if maturity-related gender differences in moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) depend on how maturity status is defined and measured; and (ii) the influence of maturity level on compliance with PA recommendations.
Methods: The study involved 253 children (139 boys) aged 9.9 ± 0.
This study is aimed at updating the relationships between physical activity (PA) and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) and/or insulin resistance (IR) in youth. Cross-sectional, prospective cohort and intervention studies, which examined the effect of PA on MetS, its components and IR in children and adolescents (<18 yrs), were searched by applying a combination of criteria in the PubMed database. The electronic search of studies published from 2000-2010 yielded >150 references.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this study was to describe an "obesogenic" environment for a group of schoolchildren using a multiple correspondence analysis (MCA) as an alternative approach to traditional methodological choices. MCA is applicable even for small samples. Ninety-one children (39 girls and 52 boys) aged 10.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: This study was designed to model the relationship between an ActiGraph-based "in-school" physical activity (PA) and the daily one among children and to quantify how school can contribute to the daily PA recommendations.
Method: Fifty boys and 43 girls (aged 8 to 11 years) wore ActiGraph for 2 schooldays of no structured PA. The daily moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA(d)) was regressed on the school time MVPA (MVPA(s)).
The aim of this study was to design a severity score specific to mobile emergency and resuscitation services (MERS). A prospective, multicentre cohort study including 17 868 patients was performed. The severity reference criterion was determined by multiple correspondence analysis.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To compare Actigraph-defined moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) cutpoints among children, combining statistical and biobehavioural analyses.
Methods: One hundred and thirteen children aged 10.0 +/- 0.
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Clinical decision support systems are a combination of software techniques to help the clinicians in their medical decision making process via functionalities ranging from basic signal analysis to therapeutic planning and computerized guidelines. The algorithms providing all these functionalities must be very carefully validated on real patient data and must be confronted to everyday clinical practice. One of the main problems when developing these techniques is the difficulty to obtain high-quality complete patient records, comprising data coming both from the biomedical equipment (high-frequency signals), and from numerous other sources (therapeutics, imagery, clinical actions, etc.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: During the administration of advanced cardiac life support for resuscitation from cardiac arrest, a combination of vasopressin and epinephrine may be more effective than epinephrine or vasopressin alone, but evidence is insufficient to make clinical recommendations.
Methods: In a multicenter study, we randomly assigned adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest to receive successive injections of either 1 mg of epinephrine and 40 IU of vasopressin or 1 mg of epinephrine and saline placebo, followed by administration of the same combination of study drugs if spontaneous circulation was not restored and subsequently by additional epinephrine if needed. The primary end point was survival to hospital admission; the secondary end points were return of spontaneous circulation, survival to hospital discharge, good neurologic recovery, and 1-year survival.