Pediatric anesthesia & critical care
Sociodemographic factors associated with paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review
Authors' conclusion
Race and ethnicity are likely associated with POHCA risk and bystander CPR provision.
Study context
- Population
- Paediatric OHCA (paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA))18 articles (15 studies)
- Comparison
- Sociodemographic factors and POHCA outcomes
- Outcome
- POHCA risk, bystander CPR, bystander AED application, survival (at or 30 days post-discharge) and neurological outcome
Methodological detailsqualitative synthesis, MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science searched from inception to October 2022; 11,097 citations screened
- Qualitative synthesis
- MEDLINE, EMBASE and Web of Science searched from inception to October 2022; 11,097 citations screened
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
- POHCA risk: significant differences across racial groups in all studies, minority populations disproportionately impacted
- No articles on SES and POHCA risk
- Bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) consistently associated with race and ethnicity, disparities impacting Black and Hispanic children
- Association between bystander CPR and SES variable
- Little evidence of socioeconomic or racial disparities in bystander automated external defibrillator (AED) application, survival and neurological outcome, particularly in adjusted analyses
- 4 articles on POHCA risk, 5 on bystander CPR, 3 on bystander AED, 13 on survival, 6 on neurological outcome
Original publication
Sociodemographic factors associated with paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review. Resuscitation. Published 9 August 2023. doi:10.
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