Time on the scene and interventions are associated with improved survival in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Survival is less than 10% for pediatric patients following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. It is not known if more time on the scene of the cardiac arrest and advanced life support interventions by emergency services personnel are associated with improved survival.

Aim

This study was performed to determine which times on the scene and which prehospital interventions were associated with improved survival.

Methods

We studied patients aged 3 days to 19 years old with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, using the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium cardiac arrest database from 11 North American regions, from 2005 to 2012. We evaluated survival to hospital discharge according to on-scene times (<10, 10 to 35 and >35 min).

Results

Data were available for 2244 p

SUBMITTER: Tijssen JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4540668 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature