Patients from minority and lower socioeconomic backgrounds experience significant disparities across the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation pathway, leading to lower survival rates.
This review highlights significant racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest care and outcomes in the US, calling for a multisystem, culturally sensitive approach to improve care.
This review highlights the current evidence on racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic disparities in cardiac arrest outcomes within the United States. Several studies demonstrate that patients from Black, Hispanic, or lower socioeconomic status backgrounds suffer the most from disparities at multiple levels of the resuscitation pathway, including in the provision of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation, defibrillator usage, and postresuscitation therapies. These gaps in care may altogether lead to lower survival rates and worse neurological outcomes for these patients. A multisystem, culturally sensitive approach to improving cardiac arrest outcomes is suggested in this article.
Mehta et al. (Thu,) conducted a review in Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Minority race/ethnicity and lower socioeconomic status vs. White race and higher socioeconomic status was evaluated. Patients from minority and lower socioeconomic backgrounds experience significant disparities across the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitation pathway, leading to lower survival rates.