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