Correspondence: is there an association between centre volume and survival or neurological outcomes among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients?

Abstract

Abstract This commentary discusses the findings of a study by Tsuchida et al. on the effect of annual hospital admissions of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients on survival and neurological outcomes in OHCA patients in the context of existing literature on the topic, and the implications on future studies investigating the volume-outcome relationship in cardiac arrest.

Keywords

• Sudden cardiac arrest
• Heart arrest
• Cardiac arrest centre
• Volume-outcome relationship
• Hospital characteristics
• Hospital volume