Abstract
Introduction
Traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (tOHCA) has a mortality rate over 95%. Many current protocols dictate rapid intra-arrest transport of these patients. We hypothesized that on-scene advanced life support (ALS) would increase the odds of arriving at the emergency department with ROSC (ROSC at ED) in comparison to performance of no ALS or ALS en route.
Methods
We utilized the 2018–2021 ESO Research Collaborative public use datasets for this study, which contain patient care records from ~2000 EMS agencies across the US. All OHCA patients with an etiology of “trauma” or “exsanguination” were screened (n=15,691). The time of advanced airway management, vascular access, and chest decompression was determined for each patient. Logistic regression modeling was used to evaluate the association of ALS intervention timing with ROSC at ED.
Results
4942 patients met inclusion criteria. 14.6% of patients had ROSC at ED. In comparison to no vascular access, on-scene (aOR: 2.14 [1.31, 3.49]) but not en route vascular access was associated with increased odds of having ROSC at ED arrival. In comparison to no chest decompression, neither en route nor on-scene chest decompression were associated with ROSC at ED arrival. Similarly, in comparison to no advanced airway management, neither en route nor on-scene advanced airway management were associated with ROSC at ED arrival. The odds of ROSC at ED decreased by 3% (aOR: 0.97 [0.94, 0.99]) for every 1-minute increase in time to vascular access and decreased by 5% (aOR: 0.95 [0.94, 0.99]) for every 1-minute increase in time to epinephrine.
Conclusion
On-scene ALS interventions were associated with increased ROSC at ED in our study. These data suggest that initiating ALS prior to rapid transport to definitive care in the setting of tOHCA may increase the number of patients with a palpable pulse at ED arrival.
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The data used for these analyses is not available from the authors. The data may be accessed via ESO upon reasonable request.
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Smida, T., Price, B.S., Scheidler, J. et al. Stay and play or load and go? The association of on-scene advanced life support interventions with return of spontaneous circulation following traumatic cardiac arrest. Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg 49, 2165–2172 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00068-023-02279-9
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