Report finds number of cardiac arrests in Canada significantly larger than previously estimated

The Heart and Stroke Foundation says approximately 60,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are happening in Canada each year. Only one in 10 people who experience a cardiac arrest out of hospital survive. The data also indicate:

• Nearly half of cardiac arrests happen to people under the age of 65;
• Inequities persist as rural, remote and isolated Indigenous communities have greater difficulties accessing emergency and other medical services for cardiac arrest response and treatment; and
• Women are less likely to be resuscitated by lay responders than men in public places.

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Canada: plus d’arrêts cardiaques que ce qu’estimé et une personne sur 10 y survit - La Presse canadienne