Livet efter döden : En kvantitativ litteraturöversikt av patienters upplevda livskvalitet efter överlevt hjärtstopp

Sammanfattning: Introduction: Approximately 10 000 people suffer each year from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sweden. At the turn of the millennia the survival rate for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was circa three precent and in 2022 the survival rate had increased to around eleven percent. Survivors face cognitive, psychological, and motor problems post arrest which impacts their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) – ie. their perception of their own social and physical environment and health. The research regarding HRQoL following cardiac arrest is limited. With increasing survival rates comes an increasing need for extensive research mapping the HRQoL of cardiac arrest survivors. Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate patients’ perceived health-related quality of life after surviving cardiac arrest.   Method: This study was conducted as a quantitative general literature review with an inductive content analysis. This study used articles that included the SF-36 instrument to measure the HRQoL in cardiac arrest survivors. Main- and subcategories were created based on the data extracted from the included articles. Result: Cardiac arrest patients generally experience their health-related quality of life as worse compared to the general population. Physical, psychological and social factors were identified as the main components whose effect on HRQoL was found to be the greatest. Conclusion: Cardiac arrest survivors experience a reduced HRQoL compared to the general population. The HRQoL is affected in both the psychological and physical dimensions with long term consequences. These results create a foundation for the nurse in the work to improve the HRQoL for the patient.