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400k doesn't sound so rare. The entire population of Tulsa OK, Wichita KS, or New Orleans, LA just drops dead every year?
by tezzer 8y ago
400k doesn't sound so rare. The entire population of Tulsa OK, Wichita KS, or New Orleans, LA just drops dead every year?
- coolspot 8y agoROC – Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium datum were gathered between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015 and includes EMS-assessed and EMS-treated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest from multiple regions of the US. According to the ROC: Approximately 356,461 people in the US experienced an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (347,922 adults, 7,037 children under age 18) 22,520 of those 356,461 were witnessed by bystanders 12.4% survived to hospital discharge Of the EMS patients who experienced non-traumatic cardiac arrest outside a hospital, and did not have bystander intervention, 10.8% survived until hospital discharge [999] - https://www.aedsuperstore.com/resources/sudden-cardiac-arrest-statistics/ https://www.aedsuperstore.com/resources/sudden-cardiac-arres...
- bzbarsky 8y agoIt's rare in young healthy-acting people. For example, http://www.sca-aware.org/sca-news/aha-releases-2015-heart-and-stroke-statistics http://www.sca-aware.org/sca-news/aha-releases-2015-heart-an... says that the incidence is 0.24 per 100k annually for high school athletes in Minnesota. Extrapolating that rate to the whole US population would give ~800 deaths per year. The observed 400k number includes quite a lot of people who suffer cardiac arrest after a history of heart disease.