Matsui and colleagues are to be congratulated for their study entitled ‘Application
of Adult Prehospital Resuscitation Rules to Pediatric Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest’.[Matsui
et al Resuscitation 2023] As the title suggests, the authors applied adult basic and
advanced life support (BLS and ALS) termination of resuscitation rules (TOR) to a
large national database of pediatric out of hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) episodes.
The study’s findings suggest that properly applied BLS TOR predict death and poor
neurological outcomes and may protect patients from survival with poor quality of
life.
Abbreviations:
TOR (Termination of Resuscitation), BLS (Basic Life Support), ALS (Advanced Life Support), OHCA (Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest), PCPC (Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category), THAPCA (Therapeutic Hypothermia After out of hospital Pediatric Cardiac Arrest), VABS (Vineland Adaptive Behavioral Scale)To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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Publication history
Published online: January 27, 2023
Accepted:
January 18,
2023
Received in revised form:
January 14,
2023
Received:
January 2,
2023
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