Prehospital Factors Associated with Refractory Traumatic Arrest

Table 2

Multivariate analysis of prehospital factors related to ER death from traumatic arrest.

Predictors of ER death	Odds ratio	95% CI	P value
Age (years)	0.976	0.950–1.003	0.085
Male gender	1.744	0.638–4.769	0.278
Witness	1.623	0.556–4.735	0.376
Bystander CPR	1.396	0.489–3.980	0.533
EMS CPR	0.284	0.023–3.482	0.325
Blunt injury	10.065	0.501–202.079	0.131
Asystole	4.033	1.342–12.115	0.013
Supraglottic airway	0.861	0.326–2.274	0.763
Need of defibrillation	0.345	0.061–1.943	0.228
Fluid resuscitation	0.487	0.159–1.488	0.207
ROSC on prehospital phase	0.100	0.012–0.839	0.034
Duration of transfer by EMS (min)	0.974	0.920–1.031	0.371

ER, emergency room; CI, confidence interval; CPR, cardiopulmonary resuscitation; EMS, emergency medical service; ROSC, return of spontaneous circulation.