Epidemiology and Outcomes from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest in Kuwait

Table 2

OHCA demographics and outcomes.

Domains (core elements)			21 February–31 December 2017, N = 286, n = (%)
			Two-tiered EMS system
Bystander; Recognition			2 (0.7)
Dispatcher-assisted CPR			16 (5.6)
Location		Home	217 (76)
Age (mean ± sd)			61.1 ± 16
Gender		Male	192 (67.1)
		Female	94 (35.9)
Medicalhistory		More than onecardiovascular risk	49 (17.1)
Nationality		Kuwaiti	112 (39.2)
	Non-Kuwaiti		174 (60.8)
Rhythm		Shockable	3 (1)
		Nonshockable	85 (29.7)
Witnessed			33 (11.5)
Basic life support			280 (97.9)
Advanced life support			12 (4.2)
EMS defibrillation			3 (1)
Response time in minutes (mean ± sd)			9.3 ± 5
Bystander CPR			25 (8.7)
ROSC			10 (3.5)
Survival to hospital discharge			1 (0.3)