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Influence of EMS-physician presence on survival after out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: systematic review and meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in Critical Care, January 2016
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Title
Influence of EMS-physician presence on survival after out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation: systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in
Critical Care, January 2016
DOI 10.1186/s13054-015-1156-6
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Bernd W. Böttiger, Michael Bernhard, Jürgen Knapp, Peter Nagele

Abstract

Evidence suggests that EMS-physician-guided cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) may be associated with improved outcomes, yet randomized controlled trials are not available. The goal of this meta-analysis was to determine the association between EMS-physician- versus paramedic-guided CPR and survival after OOHCA. Studies that compared EMS-physician- versus paramedic-guided CPR in OOHCA published until June 2014 were systematically searched in MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane databases. All studies were required to contain survival data. Data on study characteristics, methods, and as well as survival outcomes were extracted. A random-effects model was used for the meta-analysis due to a high degree of heterogeneity among the studies (I (2)  = 44 %). Return of spontaneous circulation [ROSC], survival to hospital admission, and survival to hospital discharge were the outcome measures. Out of 3,385 potentially eligible studies, 14 met the inclusion criteria. In the pooled analysis (n = 126,829), EMS-physician-guided CPR was associated with significantly improved outcomes compared to paramedic-guided CPR: ROSC 36.2 % (95 % confidence interval [CI] 31.0 - 41.7 %) vs. 23.4 % (95 % CI 18.5 - 29.2 %) (pooled odds ratio [OR] 1.89, 95 % CI 1.36 - 2.63, p < 0.001); survival to hospital admission 30.1 % (95 % CI 24.2 - 36.7 %) vs. 19.2 % (95 % CI 12.7 - 28.1 %) (pooled OR 1.78, 95 % CI 0.97 - 3.28, p = 0.06); and survival to discharge 15.1 % (95 % CI 14.6 - 15.7 %) vs. 8.4 % (95 % CI 8.2 - 8.5 %) (pooled OR 2.03, 95 % CI 1.48 - 2.79, p < 0.001). This systematic review suggests that EMS-physician-guided CPR in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with improved survival outcomes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Unknown 120 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 16 13%
Other 15 12%
Researcher 15 12%
Student > Bachelor 15 12%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 7%
Other 34 27%
Unknown 20 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 70 56%
Nursing and Health Professions 19 15%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 2%
Arts and Humanities 1 <1%
Unspecified 1 <1%
Other 6 5%
Unknown 25 20%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 107. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 13 November 2023.
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#400,780
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Outputs from Critical Care
#213
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#6,861
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of 496 outputs
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