Association between prehospital advanced life support by emergency medical services personnel and neurological outcomes among adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation: A secondary analysis of the SAVE-J II study.
Tetsuya YumotoTakashi HongoToru HifumiAkihiko InoueTetsuya SakamotoYasuhiro KurodaTakashi YorifujiAtsunori NakaoHiromichi Naitonull nullPublished in: Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians open (2023)
Prehospital ALS was associated with worse neurological outcomes at hospital discharge in patients treated with ECPR for OHCA. Further prospective studies are required to determine the clinical implications of these findings.