Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Dec 2005
Multicenter StudyOutcome of out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest in children.
To analyze the characteristics and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest in children in Spain. ⋯ Mortality of out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest in children is high. When resuscitation is started soon by layperson or paramedics, survival is increased. Duration of resuscitation efforts is the best indicator of mortality. Most of survivors had good long-term neurologic outcome.