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Hot Off the Press: Prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Out‐of‐hospital Cardiac Arrest
Author(s) -
Morgenstern Justin,
Heitz Corey,
Milne William K.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
academic emergency medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 124
eISSN - 1553-2712
pISSN - 1069-6563
DOI - 10.1111/acem.13334
Subject(s) - medicine , advanced cardiac life support , life support , basic life support , emergency medical services , advanced life support , emergency medicine , cardiopulmonary resuscitation , retrospective cohort study , resuscitation , return of spontaneous circulation , medical emergency , crew , cardiac resuscitation , intensive care medicine , aeronautics , engineering
This retrospective cohort study examined the rate of survival to hospital discharge among adult patients with out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest, comparing patients who received care only from basic cardiac life support ( BCLS )‐trained emergency medical service ( EMS ) crews to patients who had an advanced cardiac life support ( ACLS )‐trained EMS crew on scene at some point during the resuscitation. There was no difference in the primary outcome of rate of survival to hospital discharge (10.9% with ACLS care and 10.6% with BCLS care, p = 0.67).