It shows new figures from the Heart Stop Register. It writes Jyllands-Posten.
This is the first time that researchers have studied survival after cardiac arrest in sparsely populated and densely populated areas, respectively.
According to doctor Kristian Bundgaard Ringgren, who is affiliated with the Cardiac Arrest Registry and researches the relationship between settlement and cardiac death, the results may be due to the fact that Denmark has many volunteer helpers.
– The simple and most likely explanation is that the Danes are fantastically good at stepping in with life-saving help.
– This applies to both the wife, the neighbor and people at a restaurant, just as it obviously helps that more people sign up for the voluntary schemes and are ready to provide life-saving first aid when people call 112, he says to Jyllands-Posten.
According to the newspaper, Hjรธrring and Brรธnderslev municipalities have some of the country’s longest response times when it comes to getting ambulances to the injured, sick or people with cardiac arrest.
In Hjรธrring, in the contract year 2020-2021, it took an average of ten minutes and ten seconds before a Falck ambulance arrived.
Sometimes another emergency vehicle was speeding up, for example an ambulance. It took an average of nine minutes and 48 seconds before the first carriage was in place. This is shown by figures from the North Jutland Region.
To search for survival in different parts of Denmark, Kristian Bundgaard Ringgren has divided the country into three equal parts according to the number of inhabitants per hectare.
In the most sparsely populated areas live between 1.8 and 4 people. In the middle group, the population is 4-12 people per hectare. And in the most densely populated areas live 12 or more per hectare.
And so there is no “significant difference” between survival in the three areas, says the researcher.
He emphasizes that his research goes on all witnessed cardiac arrests – both abroad and at home. At the same time, the chance of surviving cardiac arrest is generally greater in the public space than in private homes, he says.
Source: The Nordic Page
