Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Factors associated with hospital transport in emergency medical services-attended out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Authors' conclusion
Hospital transport after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest was associated with both recognizable markers of potential reversibility and decision-maker-patient sex dyads. Non-transported out-of-hospital cardiac arrest constituted a substantial proportion of emergency medical services-attended arrests in this system.
Study context
- Population
- EMS-attended non-traumatic adult OHCA, Hsinchu City and Hsinchu County, Taiwan, 2022–2024eligible of 3504
- Participants
- 3,339 participants
- Exposure
- Non-transported vs Transported
- Non-transportedn = 2,299
- Transportedn = 1,040
- Outcome
- Hospital transport after initiation of resuscitation
Methodological detailspopulation-based
- Population-based
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Hospital transport (multivariable analysis)
aOR
- Witnessed arrest
- 1.754
- Bystander CPR
- 2.191
- Hypertension
- 1.406
- Last known normal <2 h vs >8 h
- 7.073
- Last known normal 2-8 h vs >8 h
- 3.244
- Last known normal unknown vs >8 h
- 2.278
- Age · per year
- 0.969
- Malignancy
- 0.638
- Prior cerebrovascular accident
- 0.623
- Arrest at home
- 0.320
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Factors associated with hospital transport in emergency medical services-attended out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 10 April 2026. doi:10.
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