Prehospital factors associated with death on hospital arrival after traffic crash in Japan: a national observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although it is important to assess prehospital factors associated with traffic crash fatalities to decrease them as a matter of public health, such factors have not been fully revealed.

Methods

Using data from the Japanese Trauma Data Bank, a large hospital-based trauma registry in Japan, we retrospectively analysed traffic crash patients transported to participating facilities that treated patients with severe trauma from 2004 to 2015. This study defined registered emergency patients whose systolic blood pressure was 0 mm Hg or heart rate was 0 bpm at hospital arrival as being in prehospital cardiopulmonary arrest (CPA). Prehospital factors associated with prehospital CPA due to traffic crash were assessed with multivariable logistic regression analysis.

Result

SUBMITTER: Katayama Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6352761 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature