Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 October 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Morton:

Our target for return of spontaneous circulation on arrival at the emergency department, ROSC at ED, is 40% of the Utstein subset of cardiac arrests. We consistently met or exceeded that for many years. It fell below 40% during Covid.