Termination of Resuscitation Rules and Survival Among Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Termination of resuscitation (TOR) rules may help guide prehospital decisions to stop resuscitation, with potential effects on patient outcomes and health resource use. Rules with high sensitivity risk increasing inappropriate transport of nonsurvivors, while rules without excellent specificity risk missed survivors. Further examination of the performance of TOR rules in estimating survival of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is needed.

Objective

To determine whether TOR rules can accurately identify patients who will not survive an OHCA.

Data sources

For this systematic review and meta-analysis, the MEDLINE, Embase, CINAHL, Cochrane Library, and Web of Science databases were searched from database inception up to January 11, 2024. There were no restri

SUBMITTER: Smyth MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11222995 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature