Successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation rate and related factors in emergency departments and wards of teaching hospitals in Zahedan city, 2016-2017

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation consists of the measures taken to restore the functions of brain and heart in a person who has lost his consciousness. The present study was performed with the objective of investigating the relationship between the underlying cause of cardiopulmonary arrest and the successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation and to help to improve the conditions and effective measures in the hospitals so that the successful cardio-pulmonary resuscitations would increase.
In this descriptive and cross-sectional study from September 2016 to March 2017, 199 patients who suffered cardiopulmonary arrest in emergency and wards of Ali-ibn-Abi-Talib and Khatam-al-anbia hospitals of Zahedan and undergone CPR, were investigated Then, the information of the patients was collected through researcher-made checklist and eventually, SPSS software was used for data analysis. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the demographic data. Then, chi-square and t-test were used for the correlation between variables.
patient's average age was 43 years. The underlying cases which were related to internal diseases were at the top of the table of cardiopulmonary arrest with the frequency of 23.6. Also, 36.7% of performed resuscitations were successful. It was observed that there is a significant relationship between the underlying causes of heart arrest and the result of CPR. Eventually, 4% of studied subjects were discharged from the hospital alive.
There was not a significant relationship between the underlying causes of heart arrest and the result of CPR. The obtained results from this study suggest that the percentage of successful resuscitations in the studied hospitals, comparing to the other studies performed in the country, is high. But in this study, a noticeable percentage of patients died.