Time to Return of Spontaneous Circulation and Survival: When to Transport in out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest?

Corina de Graaf, Dominique N. V. Donders, Stefanie G. Beesems, José P.S. Henriques, Rudolph W. Koster

Prehospital Emergency Care · 2020 · 38 citations · 25 references

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BACKGROUND: In OHCA patients with prehospital ROSC survival significantly decreases with increasing time-to-ROSC. Of all patients, 90% of survivors had achieved ROSC within the first 15 min of EMS resuscitation. The optimal time for the decision to transport is between 8 and 15 min after EMS arrival.

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