CBS News Logo CBS News. Few Survive Cardiac Arrest, Even With CPR. You don't have to be Michael Jackson to have this problem: The odds of surviving cardiac arrest after getting CPR in a hospital are slim and have not improved in more than a decade, a big Medicare study concludes. Only about 18 percent of such patients live long enough to leave the hospital, researchers found.
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On average, people having a cardiac arrest -- when the heart stops beating -- in a hospital have about a 22 percent chance of surviving at least long enough to go home. Ten years ago, they had less than a 14 percent chance of surviving until discharge, the researchers noted.
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A year later, 60 percent of these survivors will still be alive, the study finds – substantially more than most doctors probably think. The vast majority won't have another cardiac arrest in that time, and a third won't need to be hospitalized again.
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/03/14/174291275/cardiac-arrest-survivors-have-better-outlook-than-doctors-think
According to Chan, they have a 45 percent chance of living for three years. He notes the odds of surviving cardiac arrest three years after hospital discharge are about the same as for patients with heart failure, on whom medical resources such as heart-assist devices and intensive supportive care are lavished.
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And survival sometimes can depend merely on where a cardiac arrest occurs, because the quality of response and care varies widely from location to location. One study of ten North American sites showed that survival rates for out-of-hospital arrests range from 7.7 percent to 39.9 percent.
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WEDNESDAY, Nov. 14 (HealthDay News) -- A new study finds that survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest improved substantially from 2000 to 2009 in U.S. medical centers, probably because established guidelines were followed.
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According to the report, about 326,200 people experienced out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in the U.S. in 2011. (This compares with a reported incidence of 424,000 in the AHA's Heart and Stroke Statistics--2014 Update.) Of those treated by emergency medical services, 10.6 percent survived.
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Among those who do, the new data suggest that 40 percent will die in the year after discharge and 60 percent will survive. Bottom line: For the person who suffers cardiac arrest in the hospital, the odds of being among the one-year survivors works out to about 12 percent, or one in eight.
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The study authors estimate that given the improved rate of survival they found, an additional 17,200 patients survived to hospital discharge in 2009 as compared with 2000. The rate of surviving the resuscitation attempt but not surviving the hospital stay was about 54 percent, up from nearly 43 percent in 2000.
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Nearly 600,000 people -- 1,600 a day -- suffer sudden heart stoppages every year, about 400,000 of them outside hospitals. Less than 6 percent of victims survive cardiac arrests outside hospitals. Of the 200,000 cardiac arrests that occur in hospitals, 24 percent of victims survive, according to a panel of the independent Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
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