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Table 3 Prehospital key treatments

From: An increased potential for organ donors may be found among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

Prehospital diagnosis

N

Prehospital intubation N (% (95%CI))

p-value

Hypertonic Saline

p-value

Other fluids

p-value

Inotropic support

p-value

Stroke

49

18 (36.7% (23.4%–51.7%))

0.001

2 (4.1% (0.5%–14.0%)

0.22

9 (18.4% (8.8%–32.0%))

0.80

3 (6.1%(1.3%–16.9%))

 < 0.001

Cardiac Arrest

22

18 (81.8% (59.7%–94.8%))

2 (9.1% (1.1%–29.2%))

2 (9.1% (1.1%–29.2%))

18 (81.8% (59.7%–94.8%))

Subarachnoideal haemorrhage

21

14 (66.7% (43.0%–85.4%))

1 (4.8% (0.1%–23.8%))

3 (14.3% (3.0%–36.3%))

2 (9.5% (1.2%–30.4%))

Head Trauma

14

9 (64.3% (35.1%–87.2%))

5 (35.7% (12.8%–64.9%))

3 (21.4% (4.7%–50.8%))

5 (35.7% (12.8%–64.9%))

Miscellaneous

15

8 (53.3% (26.6%–78.7%))

0 (0.0% (0.0%–21.8%))

3 (20.0% (4.3%–48.1%))

3 (20.0% (4.3%–48.1%))

No diagnosis assigned

14

2 (14.3% (1.8%–42.2%))

0 (0.0% (0.0%–2.3%))

1 (7.1% (0.2%–33.9%))

0 (0.0% (0.0%–2.3%))

Total population

135

69 (51.1% (42.4%–59.8%))

10 (7.4% (3.6&–13.2%))

21 (15.6% (9.9%–22.8%))

31 (23.0% (16.2%–31.0%))

  1. Patients with cardiac arrest were significantly more often intubated at the scene and received significantly more inotropic support