From the NCAA data we know there are around 250 paediatric cardiac arrests in UK hospitals each year! A study over a 7 year period found the majority of arrests had non shockable rhythms (95.7%)
Despite these being associated with worse outcomes in adults, a survival to hospital discharge of 54.2% was seen.
In those patients with an arrest lasting over 20 minutes, there was still a survival of 24%, demonstrating that it is difficult to prognosticate in young patients infra-arrest
COVID didn’t just have direct impacts this year, but it also meant patients with other conditions such as DKA and cancers were presenting late because of fear around catching COVID in hospitals!
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