Resuscitation
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Impact of video-recording on patient outcome and data collection in out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
Most research on out-of-hospital resuscitation relies on data collection from medical records. However, the data in medical records are often inaccurate. ⋯ We detected a high number of discrepancies between the medical record and the data from the video recorded resuscitation. No significant effect of video-recording on patient outcome was found.
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Traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA) guidelines emphasize specific actions that aim to treat the potential reversible causes of the arrest. The aim of this study was to measure the impact of these recommendations on specific rescue measures carried out in the field, and their influence on short-term outcomes in the resuscitation of TCA patients. ⋯ Reversible measures were applied but to a varying degree, and may not adequately capture pre-hospital performance on overall TCA survival.