Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Comparing strategies for prehospital transport to specialty care after cardiac arrest
Authors' conclusion
We did not find strong evidence in favor of a particular strategy for transport to specialty care after OHCA.
Study context
- Population
- Patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) treated at a single specialty center, 2010–2021included in instrumental variable (IV) regression
- Participants
- 1,861 patients
- Exposure
- Prehospital transport strategies to specialty care after OHCA
- Nearest hospital then air transfern = 1,221
- Outcome
- Functionally favorable survival to hospital discharge
- Follow-up
- Hospital discharge
Methodological detailssingle-centre, instrumental variable adjusted probit regression
- Single-centre
- Instrumental variable adjusted probit regression
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Overall functionally favorable survival
395
21%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Population-level time from OHCA to specialty care — Ground to air ambulance
- median 56 (IQR 47–66) minutes
Population-level time from OHCA to specialty care
- Shortest population-level time with ground to air ambulance
Original publication
Comparing strategies for prehospital transport to specialty care after cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 23 August 2023. doi:10.
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