Evaluating the current breadth of randomized control trials on cardiac arrest: A scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite the significant disease burden due to cardiac arrest, there is a relative paucity of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to inform definitive management. We aimed to evaluate the current scope of cardiac arrest RCTs published between 2015 and 2022.

Methods

We conducted a search in October 2023 of MEDLINE, Embase, and Web of Science for cardiac arrest RCTs. We included trials published between 2015 and 2022 enrolling human subjects suffering from non-traumatic cardiac arrest. Descriptive statistics were reported and the Mann Kendall test was used to evaluate for temporal trends in the number of trials published annually.

Results

We identified 1764 unique publications, 87 RCTs were included after title/abstract and full-text review. We found no signif

SUBMITTER: Toy J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11486800 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature