Paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: Time to update registries?

Each out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a rare and dramatic event for all involved and yet requires specific interventions in a time-dependent, high-functioning chain of survival to maximise chances. In 1995, a task force consisting of members from the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Heart Association, and the European Resuscitation Council proposed the “Paediatric Utstein Style”, a format for reporting cases of cardiac arrest in children [11]. Cardiac arrest and cardiopulmonary resuscitation outcome reports: update of the Utstein resuscitation registry templates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.