{"id":4548,"date":"2016-01-19T09:13:43","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T14:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2016-02-05T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T18:20:55","slug":"high-rise-equals-high-risk-for-cardiac-arrests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/high-rise-equals-high-risk-for-cardiac-arrests\/","title":{"rendered":"High-rise equals high-risk for cardiac arrest patients<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-110\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/SMCC-english2.jpg\" alt=\"SMCC-english2\" width=\"255\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Living on a higher floor means a person has a smaller chance of surviving cardiac arrest, according to the authors of a new study. Researchers believe this effect is caused by the extra time it takes emergency personnel to reach the patient.<\/p>\n<p>The study examined data from over 8,000 adults who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the Toronto area between 2007 and 2012. They found people living below the third floor had a survival rate of 4.2 per cent. However the survival rate was only 2.6 per cent for individuals living above the third floor.<\/p>\n<p>On the sixteenth floor or higher the survival rate was less than one per cent, and there were no survivors past the twenty-fifth floor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-host-microbe\/abstract\/S1931-3128(15)00497-7\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the\u00a0<em>CMAJ\u00a0<\/em>on <strong>January 18<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0author<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Ian Drennan,\u00a0Rescu, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute,\u00a0St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital, Toronto, and\u00a0Institute of Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine,\u00a0University of Toronto, and\u00a0Centre for Prehospital Medicine, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living on a higher floor means a person has a smaller chance of surviving cardiac arrest, according to the authors of a new study. Researchers believe this effect is caused by the extra time it takes emergency personnel to reach the patient. The study examined data from over 8,000 adults who suffered out-of-hospital cardiac arrest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[2489,2487,2488,53,50,476],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-ambulance","tag-cardiac","tag-emergency","tag-medicine","tag-ontario","tag-public-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1bm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}