True or False. According to a recent study, patients with drug related out-of-hospital cardiac arrests are less likely than those with presumed cardiac causes of arrest to receive bystander resuscitation but are more likely to survive.
TRUE
Orkin AM, Zhan C, Buick JE, et al. Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival in drug-related versus cardiac causes in Ontario: A retrospective cohort study. PLoS One. 2017;12(4):e0176441. Published 2017 Apr 26. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0176441
Contributed by Kennedy Crosby, PharmD, PGY2 Critical Care Pharmacy Resident, UF Health Jacksonville, on behalf of the Florida Poison Information Center Network
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