{"id":16730,"date":"2026-02-24T07:10:36","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16730"},"modified":"2026-02-24T07:10:36","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T18:10:36","slug":"only-a-quarter-of-heart-attack-patients-survive-the-trip-to-hospital-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=16730","title":{"rendered":"Only a quarter of heart attack patients survive the trip to hospital – report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Only a quarter of people who have heart attacks in the community survive the trip to hospital, according to a new report by ambulance services.<\/p>\n

Hato Hone St John and Wellington Free Ambulance have released the latest annual\u00a0Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Report<\/i>, saying “out-of-hospital cardiac arrests” (OHCAs) remain a major public health challenge.<\/p>\n

Between 1 July 2024 and 30 June 2025, 2466 people were treated for cardiac arrest\u00a0by ambulance officers across the country<\/a>\u00a0– almost seven a day.<\/p>\n

Eighty-one percent of patients\u00a0received CPR from a bystander<\/a>, but only six percent received treatment with a defibrillator, otherwise known as an AED.<\/p>\n

Twenty-four percent of patients survived to hospital arrival, and only 12 percent survived a month after the event – similar numbers to previous years.<\/p>\n

Dr Elena Garcia, deputy clinical director at St John, said making sure people received timely CPR or AED access could be the difference between life or death.<\/p>\n

“We know that patients who have recieved community defibrillation from an AED have more than double the odds of survival, so it’s just about getting them to the patients when they need them.<\/p>\n

“It’s about having AEDs in communities all across New Zealand, and making sure they’re truly available in terms of being open to the community, 24\/7 access, and unlocked.”<\/p>\n

They were very straightforward to use, she said – the 111 call-taker could walk someone through it, or the AED itself would have an automated voice telling the first responder where to put the stickers and which buttons to press.<\/p>\n

Deputy chief executive for clinical services at Hato Hone St John, Jon Moores, agreed that improving community confidence and capability remained essential, along with increasing awareness of early signs of cardiac arrest and the availability of AEDs.<\/p>\n

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Only a quarter of people who have heart attacks in the community survive the trip to hospital, according to a new report by ambulance services. Hato Hone St John and Wellington Free Ambulance have released the latest annual\u00a0Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest Report, saying “out-of-hospital cardiac arrests” (OHCAs) remain a major public health challenge. Between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16732,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16730\/revisions\/16732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}