The epidemiology of cardiac arrest with Katherine Pemberton and Tom Archer

In this session we will examine the epidemiology of OHCA. We will look at the frequency and trends of OHCA together with the causes and risk factors. We will examine the concept of a registry of cardiac arrest and appreciation of baselines to work from. We will also look at the current mitigation strategies that are available to prevent OHCA such as policy, and Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) amongst others. We will also look at our guest's PhD (Dr Katherine Pemberton) and how that both informs the current climate and the future of how we tackle OHCA.

We examine:

• The current statistical climate - in Wales and Queensland
• Main contributing factors/risk factors around incidence
• Patterns between the two areas both in disease prevalence and problematic rate-limiting steps in decreasing OHCA.
• Cornerstones of policy that need/require adaptation
• PAD/Public Access Defibrillation and the importance of community engagement
• Social demographics and how OHCA maps onto social deprivation 
• Iterative solutions (no magic bullet concept) 

These are links to Dr Pemberton's literature review:

https://ajp.paramedics.org/index.php/ajp/article/view/752

https://ajp.paramedics.org/index.php/ajp/article/view/753

These are the pubmed links. 

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31352680/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31352690/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33219108/

Please enjoy this episode with two insightful and engaging guests