Pre-hospital advanced airway management for adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: nationwide cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine survival associated with advanced airway management (AAM) compared with no AAM for adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Design

Cohort study between January 2014 and December 2016.

Setting

Nationwide, population based registry in Japan (All-Japan Utstein Registry).

Participants

Consecutive adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, separated into two sub-cohorts by their first documented electrocardiographic rhythm: shockable (ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia) and non-shockable (pulseless electrical activity or asystole). Patients who received AAM during cardiopulmonary resuscitation were sequentially matched with patients at risk of AAM within the same minute on the basis of time dependent prop

SUBMITTER: Izawa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6393774 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature