Terminating Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrests Outside of the Hospital

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Transport Medicine| July 01 2008 Terminating Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrests Outside of the Hospital AAP Grand Rounds (2008) 20 (1): 4. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.20-1-4 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Terminating Resuscitation for Cardiac Arrests Outside of the Hospital. AAP Grand Rounds July 2008; 20 (1): 4. https://doi.org/10.1542/gr.20-1-4 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All AAP SitesAll PublicationsAll JournalsAAP Grand RoundsPediatricsHospital PediatricsPediatrics In ReviewNeoReviewsAAP News Search Advanced Search Topics: cardiac arrest, resuscitation Source: O’Brien E, Hendricks D, Cone D. Field termination of resuscitation: analysis of a newly implemented protocol. Prehosp Emerg Care. 2008;12(1):57–61; doi:10.1080/10903120701707989 The authors, from Yale-New Haven Medical Center in New Haven, CT, performed a retrospective review of all adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) patients transported to two emergency departments (ED) during a 3.5-year interval to determine how often patients were transported despite meeting termination-of-resuscitation (TOR) protocols for traumatic and nontraumatic OOHCA. Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and ED records were evaluated to assess for the presence of TOR protocol criteria and to determine whether the patients should have been transported or pronounced dead on the scene. Records were also examined for extenuating circumstances that may have prompted the transport despite meeting TOR criteria. The outcome measures were survival to discharge from the hospital and survival... Copyright © 2008 by the American Academy of Pediatrics2008 You do not currently have access to this content.