A hypothetical implementation of 'Termination of Resuscitation' protocol for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests with negligible chance of survival are routinely transported to hospital and many are pronounced dead thereafter. This leads to some potentially avoidable costs. The 'Termination of Resuscitation' protocol allows paramedics to terminate resuscitation efforts onsite for medically futile cases. This study estimates the changes in frequency of costly events that might occur when the protocol is applied to out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, as compared to existing practice.

Methods

We used Singapore data from the Pan-Asian Resuscitation Outcomes Study, from 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2017. A Markov model was developed to summarise the events that would occur in two scenarios, existing practice and the implementation of a Termination of Resuscit

SUBMITTER: Nazeha N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8244430 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature