Hot Off the Press: Prehospital Advanced Cardiac Life Support for Out-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest

Abstract

This retrospective cohort study examined the rate of survival to hospital discharge among adult patients with out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), comparing patients who received care only from basic cardiac life support (BCLS) trained emergency medical service (EMS) crews to patients who had an advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) trained EMS crew on scene at some point during the resuscitation. There was no difference in the primary outcome of rate of survival to hospital discharge (10.9% with ACLS care and 10.6% with BCLS care, p = 0.67).

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