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SUBMITTER: Pareek N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6918505 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pareek Nilesh N Kordis Peter P Webb Ian I Noc Marko M MacCarthy Philip P Byrne Jonathan J
Interventional cardiology (London, England) 20191118 3
Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity in developed countries and remains an important public health burden. A primary cardiac aetiology is common in OHCA patients, and so patients are increasingly brought to specialist cardiac centres for consideration of coronary angiography, percutaneous coronary intervention and mechanical circulatory support. This article focuses on the management of OHCA in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory. In particula ...[more]