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. 2012 Jul 6;16(4):R117.
doi: 10.1186/cc11410.

Survival and neurologic outcome after traumatic out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest in a pediatric and adult population: a systematic review

Jörn Zwingmann, Alexander T Mehlhorn, Thorsten Hammer, Jörg Bayer, Norbert P Südkamp, Peter C Strohm

Survival and neurologic outcome after traumatic out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest in a pediatric and adult population: a systematic review

Jörn Zwingmann et al. Crit Care. .

Abstract

Introduction: This systematic review is focused on the in-hospital mortality and neurological outcome of survivors after prehospital resuscitation following trauma. Data were analyzed for adults/pediatric patients and for blunt/penetrating trauma.

Methods: A systematic review was performed using the data available in Ovid Medline. 476 articles from 1/1964 - 5/2011 were identified by two independent investigators and 47 studies fulfilled the requirements (admission to hospital after prehospital resuscitation following trauma). Neurological outcome was evaluated using the Glasgow outcome scale.

Results: 34 studies/5391 patients with a potentially mixed population (no information was found in most studies if and how many children were included) and 13 paediatric studies/1243 children (age ≤ 18 years) were investigated. The overall mortality was 92.8% (mixed population: 238 survivors, lethality 96.7%; paediatric group: 237 survivors, lethality 86.4% = p < 0.001).

Conclusions: Children have a higher chance of survival after resuscitation of an out-of-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest compared to adults but tend to have a poorer neurological outcome at discharge.

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Search terms and the strategy used to search the medical databases.
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Search strategy and criteria used for exclusion of studies. Of 476 studies found, 429 had to be excluded from analysis for the reasons demonstrated, leaving 47 remaining studies (including 13 pediatric studies) for the final analysis.
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