County of Franklin issued the following announcement on Feb. 22.
During the public comment portion of the February 7, 2022 Board of Commissioners meeting, Franklin County's contract medical director made several dramatic statements about the survival of cardiac arrest events in the county but never cited the source of her data and did not provide this information to the county manager prior to the meeting. Statement: “Franklin County has one of the lowest survival rates across all 100 counties in North Carolina at less than 10 percent.”
The most current CARES (Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival) summary showed that Franklin County has an overall survival to hospital admission rate of 28.6% which is higher than the North Carolina average – 26.4% -- and the national average of 24%.
Explanation: Overall survival to hospital admission means after a cardiac event, if the first responder can detect a pulse prior to turning the patient’s care over to a hospital. When a person requests Franklin County EMS for a cardiac arrest event, paramedics will apply their best efforts to revive or stabilize the patient until they are turned over to appropriate medical professionals for further treatment.
While the medical director failed to provide the source of her statistic, she may have referred to the most current summary from CARES which showed that the county’s overall survival to hospital discharge with good or moderate cerebral performance is 9.5% based on the 63 cases that CARES tracked. The overall state average for this same data point is 9.4%.
Original source can be found here.
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