{"id":626192,"date":"2026-09-16T07:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626192\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T07:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T07:38:10","slug":"saving-lives-with-timely-transfers-to-cardiac-arrest-centres-healthcare-in-europe-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/626192\/","title":{"rendered":"Saving lives with timely transfers to cardiac arrest centres \u2022 healthcare-in-europe.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox content-img\" rel=\"fancybox nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/healthcare-in-europe.com\/media\/story_section_text\/46301\/image-01-alessandro-sionis-portrait_hires.jpg\" title=\"Prof. Alessandro Sionis\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/image-01-alessandro-sionis-portrait.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait photo of Professor Alessandro Sionis\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Prof. Alessandro Sionis<\/p>\n<p>Sudden cardiac death remains the third leading cause of death in Europe, with an estimated annual incidence of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) ranging from 67 to 170 cases per 100,000 people. Overall survival remains poor \u2013 at 10% or lower. Yet in European hospitals that can implement withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy, more than 90% of patients who survive to hospital discharge have a favourable neurological outcome.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2018However, neurological impairment, fatigue and emotional difficulties are common,\u2019 said Professor Alessandro Sionis, the newly elected president of the Association for Acute Cardiovascular Care (ACVC), speaking at a dedicated session on fast transfers and the hub-and-spoke model.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Marked differences between centres<\/p>\n<p>Sionis, a consultant cardiologist at the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau in Barcelona, Spain, identified &#8216;substantial variability&#8217; across cardiac arrest centres (CACs) that is still negatively affecting the quality of care. He pointed to &#8216;marked&#8217; centre-to-centre differences in outcomes after OHCA, which appear to be \u2018partly attributable to variations in in-hospital management strategies and post-resuscitation care.\u20191<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof. Alessandro Sionis Sudden cardiac death remains the third leading cause of death in Europe, with an estimated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[265842,265843,103,61,60,265841],"class_list":["post-626192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-uniperugianews-and-koebenhavns_uni-brfacebook-hospitalsantacreuisantpau","tag-universitaperugia-and-universitet","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-x-hospitalsantpau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}