Survival in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with initial FV/TV in a large metropolitan area in Brazil

s / Resuscitation 96S (2015) 43–157 117 quality of the local emergency system. The vast majority of them was focused only on cardiac arrests with a presumed cardiac origin and with a very short follow-up. The power of the Pavia CARE is to be the first registry of cardiac arrests proposed by cardiologists with a long follow-up (5 years). Materials and methods: We enrolled in our registry all the patients who suffered a cardiac arrest of any aetiology in the Province of Pavia (about 550,000 inhabitants) from October 2014 onwards. The principal outcomewas the survival at 1month of the patients inwhomCPRwas attempted, and the secondary outcomes were the survival at 6month and the survival every year until 5 year after the event of these patients. Results: In the first 5 months of our registry (October 2014–February 2015) 220 confirmed OHCA in which CPR was attempted occurred in our Province. The survived events were 16.4% (n=36), whilst the survival at 1 month was 5.9% (n=13). Of these 9 (69%) have been discharged with a good neurological outcome (CPC score 1–2), and 4 (31%) had a poor neurological outcome (CPC 3–4). Conclusions: The first results from our registry show a survival at 1 month similar to that present in literature. Due to its long follow-up the Pavia CARE will provide important elements to improve cardiac arrest victims’ survival. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.09.276