Association Between Tracheal Intubation During Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Survival.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Tracheal intubation is common during pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest, although the relationship between intubation during cardiac arrest and outcomes is unknown.

Objective

To determine if intubation during pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with improved outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational study of data from United States hospitals in the Get With The Guidelines-Resuscitation registry. Pediatric patients (<18 years) with index in-hospital cardiac arrest between January 2000 and December 2014 were included. Patients who were receiving assisted ventilation, had an invasive airway in place, or both at the time chest compressions were initiated were excluded.

Exposures

Tracheal intubation during cardiac arrest .

SUBMITTER: Andersen LW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6080953 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature