EMS Treatment Guidelines in Major Traumatic Brain Injury With Positive Pressure Ventilation.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care (EPIC) study demonstrated improved survival in patients with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) following implementation of the prehospital treatment guidelines. The impact of implementing these guidelines in the subgroup of patients who received positive pressure ventilation (PPV) is unknown.

Objective

To evaluate the association of implementation of prehospital TBI evidence-based guidelines with survival among patients with prehospital PPV.

Design, setting, and participants

The EPIC study was a multisystem, intention-to-treat study using a before/after controlled design. Evidence-based guidelines were implemented by emergency medical service agencies across Arizona. This subanalysis was planned a priori and inclu

SUBMITTER: Gaither JB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10809136 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature