Urgent Need to Strengthen the Chain of Survival in the United Arab Emirates; a Letter to the Editor
Journal Title: Archives of Academic Emergency Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Further to our recently published findings, we have completed the analysis of our second year of prehospital data collection for the same service (1). We wish to expedite the availability of this data to clinicians, researchers and policy makers in the region. Our 2015/2016 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) data displayed the following demographic results: 514 OHCA resuscitation attempts were attended by national ambulance (NA) emergency medical services (EMS) in the Northern Emirates region (75% male). Male patients continued on average to be younger than female ones (50 vs. 61 years), and the median age of OHCA cases in the United Arab Emirates remains well below that of cases in Western countries (52 years, interquartile range: 38; 69).
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