Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Nov 2011
Incidence of treated cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients in the United States.
The incidence and incidence over time of cardiac arrest in hospitalized patients is unknown. We sought to estimate the event rate and temporal trends of adult inhospital cardiac arrest treated with a resuscitation response. ⋯ There are approximately 200,000 treated cardiac arrests among U.S. hospitalized patients annually, and this rate may be increasing. This is important for understanding the burden of inhospital cardiac arrest and developing strategies to improve care for hospitalized patients.