TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Post-Cardiac Arrest Management A1 - Heffner, Alan C. A1 - Pearson, David A. A2 - Farcy, David A. A2 - Chiu, William C. A2 - Marshall, John P. A2 - Osborn, Tiffany M. PY - 2016 T2 - Critical Care Emergency Medicine, 2e AB - Sudden cardiac arrest is a leading cause of death in developed countries and impacts over 350,000 patients in the United States per year with an overall survival rate after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest of approximately 10%.1,2 Despite initial resuscitation, 50% of arrest victims do not survive to discharge from the hospital. One-third die from refractory cardiovascular shock or the cause of initial arrest. The remaining patients survive the initial insult only to later succumb due to organ dysfunction and neurologic injury stemming from the cardiac arrest. Among survivors, the burden of cardiac arrest persists, with up to 30% of patients suffering permanent neurologic injury. These data underscore the impressive health care burden of sudden cardiac arrest. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/10/07 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1135700789 ER -