Comparing strategies for prehospital transport to specialty care after cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT: Outcomes are better when patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) are treated at specialty centers. The best strategy to transport patients from the scene of resuscitation to specialty care is unknown.

Methods

We performed a retrospective cohort study. We identified patients treated at a single specialty center after OHCA from 2010 to 2021 and used OHCA geolocations to develop a catchment area using a convex hull. Within this area, we identified short term acute care hospitals, OHCA receiving centers, adult population by census block group, and helicopter landing zones. We determined population-level times to specialty care via: (1) direct ground transport; (2) transport to the nearest hospital followed by air interfacility transfer; and (3) ground transport

SUBMITTER: Elmer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10530609 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature