Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to electrocution: Characteristics and outcomes
Authors' conclusion
Electrocution cases had a similar likelihood of presenting in a shockable rhythm to medical causes. Electrocution was not an independent predictor of survival, with favourable prognosis appearing to be attenuated by other factors, including younger age and a higher proportion of initial shockable rhythms.
Study context
- Population
- Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrests (OHCA) cases, 2000–2023113 (0.1%) electrocution
- Participants
- 118,677 cases
- Exposure
- OHCA secondary to electrocution vs medical and other non-medical aetiologies
- Electrocutionn = 113
- Outcome
- Initial shockable rhythm and patient outcomes (survival to hospital discharge)
Methodological detailsmultivariable logistic regression
- Multivariable logistic regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Presenting in a shockable rhythm
Adjusted odds ratio (95% CI)P value
Electrocution vs Medical
1.08(0.59–2.01)
P = 0.790Non-medical vs Electrocutionlower for non-medical causes
0.07(0.04–0.14)
P < 0.001Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Crude incidence of OHCA secondary to electrocution · 2000–2023
- Crude incidence per 100,000 person-years, reducing significantly over time (p <0.001)
- 0.11
Survival to hospital discharge (unadjusted)
- Not significant after adjustment for differences in arrest characteristics
- Unadjusted
Patient characteristics
- Electrocution cases more likely to be male, occur in a workplace and present in a shockable rhythm vs medical and non-medical causes
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Original publication
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest secondary to electrocution: Characteristics and outcomes. Resuscitation. Published 30 June 2025. doi:10.
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