First Responder CPR and Survival Differences in Texas Minority and Lower Socioeconomic Status Neighborhoods

INTRODUCTION First responder (FR) cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is an important component of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) care. However, little is known about FR CPR disparities. METHODS We linked the 2014-2021 Texas Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (TX-CARES) database to census tract data. We included non-traumatic OHCAs that were not witnessed by 9-1-1 responders and did not receive bystander CPR. We defined census tracts as having >50% of a race/ethnicity: White, Black, or Hispanic/Latino. We also stratified patients into quartiles based on socioeconomic status (SES): household income, high school graduation, and unemployment. We also combined race/ethnicity and income to create a total of five mixed strata, comparing lower income and minority census tracts to high income White census tracts. We created mixed model logistic regression models, adjusting for confounders and modeling census tract as a random intercept. Using the models, we compared FR CPR rates for census race/ethnicity (Black and Hispanic/Latino compared to White), and SES quartiles (2nd, 3rd, and 4th quartiles compared to 1st quartiles). Secondarily, we evaluated the association between FR CPR and survival for all strata. RESULTS We included 21,966 OHCAs, and 57.4% had FR CPR. Evaluating the association between census tract characteristic and FR CPR, majority Black (aOR 0.30, 95% CI 0.22-0.41) had a lower bystander CPR rate when compared to majority White. The lowest income quartile had a lower rate of bystander CPR (aOR 0.80, 95% CI 0.65-0.98). The worst unemployment quartile was also associated with a lower rate of FR CPR (aOR 0.75, 95% CI 0.61-0.92). Combining race/ethnicity and income, middle income majority Black (30.0%; aOR 0.27, 95% CI 0.17-0.46) and low income >80% Black (31.8%; aOR 0.27, 95% CI 0.10-0.68) had lower rates of FR CPR in comparison to high income majority White. There were no associations between Hispanic or lower high school graduation and lower rates of FR CPR. We found no association between FR CPR and survival for all three strata. CONCLUSION While we identified disparities in FR CPR in low SES and majority Black census tracts, we identified no association between FR CPR and survival in Texas.

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