Outcomes of Early versus Late Endotracheal Intubation in Patients with Initial Non-Shockable Rhythm Cardiopulmonary Arrest in the Emergency Department
Table 4
Odds ratio from multivariable logistic regression predicting survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurological outcome from time to advance airway management ≤2 minutes and >2 minutes.
Associated factor
Odds ratio
95% confidence interval
value
Time to advanced airway management ≤2 min
1.68
0.52–5.45
0.387
Time to first dose of epinephrine within 2 minutes
0.92
0.23–3.73
0.904
Intravenous sodium bicarbonate used during resuscitation
0.14
0.02–1.11
0.063
Age
0.99
0.96–1.02
0.536
Gender
1.74
0.57–5.28
0.328
Etiology of cardiac arrest
0.61
0.36–1.04
0.068
Collapsed time to first chest compression
0.31
0.86–0.97
0.003
Reference with time to advanced airway management >2 min.