Do Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients Have Increased Chances of Survival When Transported to a Cardiac Resuscitation Center?

ABSTRACT: Background Patients suffering from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest are often transported to the closest hospital. Although it has been suggested that these patients be transported to cardiac resuscitation centers, few jurisdictions have acted on this recommendation. To better evaluate the evidence on this subject, a systematic review and meta-analysis of the currently available literature evaluating the association between the destination hospital's capability (cardiac resuscitation center or not) and resuscitation outcomes for adult patients suffering from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was performed. Methods and Results PubMed, EMBASE , and the Cochrane Library databases were first searched using a specifically designed search strategy. Both original randomized controlled trials and

SUBMITTER: Lipe D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6405559 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature