title: Post resuscitation care--some words of caution and a call for action.
abstract: This fall the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European Cardiology Society (ESC) publish updated post resuscitation care guidelines. For these guidelines to have an impact they must be implemented into daily clinical practice. Newer studies imply that differences in hospital care explain much of the observed differences in survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. A recent Nordic (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden) survey suggests worrisome variations in post resuscitation care provided and should urge us all to act in the coming years. One important step will be to build up resuscitation systems with integrated cardiac arrest centres in all the 5 Nordic countries and benchmark process of care, financial implications and survival.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway. eldar.soreide@sus.no.|Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. eldar.soreide@sus.no.|Network for Medical Sciences, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway. eldar.soreide@sus.no.
authors.forename: Eldar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Søreide
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.|Department of Clinical Science, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
authors.forename: Alf Inge
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Larsen
mesh_terms: D002423:Cause of Death; D003422:Critical Care / Q000592:standards*; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D058687:Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest / Q000401:mortality / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000592:standards*; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries / Q000453:epidemiology; D016019:Survival Analysis