Survival and Rearrest in out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients with Prehospital Return of Spontaneous Circulation: A Prospective Multi-Regional Observational Study.
Jae-Hyug WooJin Seong ChoChoung Ah LeeGi Woon KimYu Jin KimHyung Jun MoonYong Jin ParkKyoung Mi LeeWon Jung JeongIl Kug ChoiHan Joo ChoiHyuk Joong ChoiPublished in: Prehospital emergency care : official journal of the National Association of EMS Physicians and the National Association of State EMS Directors (2020)
A longer interval from collapse to first prehospital ROSC was associated with rearrest, and an initial shockable rhythm was associated with survival despite the occurrence of rearrest. Emergency medical service providers and physicians should be prepared to deal with rearrest when pulses are obtained late in the resuscitation.