Sudden Cardiac Arrest: For A Better Public Education

Etienne Aliot (1) , Christine Ammirati (2, 3) , Pierre Carli , Pascal Cassan (4) , Michel Desnos (5) , Henri Julien , Michel Komajda (6, 7, 8) , Daniel Loisance , Eloi Marijon (9) , Pierre-Francois Plouin (10, 11, 12)

1 Institut Lorrain du Coeur et des Vaisseaux Louis Mathieu [Nancy]
2 CHU Amiens-Picardie
3 CRP-CPO - Centre de Recherche en Psychologie : Cognition, Psychisme et Organisations - UR UPJV 7273
4 IFIRC Global First Aid Reference Centre - Fédération internationale des Sociétés de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge
5 UMR_S 633 - Therapie Cellulaire en Pathologie Cardio-Vasculaire
6 ICAN - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Cardiovasculaires, du Métabolisme et de la Nutrition = Research Unit on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
7 Institut de cardiologie [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière]
8 UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6
9 Service de cardiologie pédiatrique [CHU Necker]
10 Faculté de Médecine
11 Département Hypertension
12 INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale

Out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest remains a major public health issue, with more than 40000 new cases occurring in France every year. Overall, less than 10% will eventually survive. The first minutes are essential, and a more systematic effective cardiopulmonary resuscitation, combining cardiac massage and early defibrillation, should allow much higher survival rates. An ambitious and well-coordinated program, based on an adequate education of the general population since childhood, is mandatory to substantially improve outcomes. In the present report, the French National Medical Academy suggests a strategy, based on four essential measures, for a better public education to life-saving techniques.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Etienne Aliot, Christine Ammirati, Pierre Carli, Pascal Cassan, Michel Desnos, et al.. Sudden Cardiac Arrest: For A Better Public Education. Bulletin de l'Académie Nationale de Médecine, 2018, 202 (7), pp.1341-1353. ⟨hal-03601255⟩