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Hong Kong needs cardiac arrest register, say doctors, as city’s survival rate lags United States and Europe

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A register of cardiac arrests that take place outside Hong Kong hospitals would help improve the city’s survival rate, doctors have said.Doctors writing in the latest issue of the Hong Kong Medical Journal said the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the city was low compared with some other countries and places.“A register would provide data showing what we are not doing well, allowing us to develop measures and make improvements,” said Dr Lui Chun-tat, a consultant in accident…

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