1. Contributing factors to early recurrence of ventricular fibrillation during out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An observational retrospective study
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Romain Kedzierewicz, Romain Jouffroy, Daniel Jost, Vivien Hong Tuan Ha, Olivier Stibbe, Frédéric Lemoine, Julie Trichereau, Sabine Lemoine, Benoit Frattini, Frédérique Briche, Clément Derkenne, Paris Fire Brigade Cardiac Arrest Task Force investigators, Bertrand Prunet, Pascal Diegelmann, René Bihannic, Paris-Centre de Recherche Cardiovasculaire (PARCC (UMR_S 970/ U970)), Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou [APHP] (HEGP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université de Paris (UP), Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Hôpitaux Universitaires Paris Ouest - Hôpitaux Universitaires Île de France Ouest (HUPO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Brigade de sapeurs pompiers de Paris (BSPP), and CCSD, Accord Elsevier
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Emergency Medical Services ,Paris ,Multivariate analysis ,Adolescent ,Early Recurrence ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Electric Countershock ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Emergency Nursing ,Out of hospital cardiac arrest ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Retrospective Studies ,business.industry ,Basic life support ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Retrospective cohort study ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Shock (circulatory) ,Ventricular fibrillation ,Emergency medicine ,Ventricular Fibrillation ,Recurrent ventricular fibrillation ,Emergency Medicine ,Observational study ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business ,Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - Abstract
International audience; Introduction: In out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), external electric shock (EES) is recommended for treating ventricular fibrillation (VF). Refibrillation commonly occurs within one minute post-shock. We aimed to investigate refibrillation times and identifyclinical and electrical factors associated with them.Materials and methods: This retrospective observational study, based on the Paris Fire Brigade database, included non-traumatic OHCA over 18 years of age who received at least one shock with an AED from Basic Life Support (BLS) rescuers and from which we randomly selected a sample to measure the refibrillation-times. Without prior reference to it in the literature, we classified the refibrillation-time into two modalities according to whether it was above or below the median-time. We performed multiple regression analysis to assess associations between refibrillation-time and potential explanatory factors.Results: Among 13,181 patients who experienced OHCA from January 2010 to January 2014, we analysed AED data from 215 patients (590 shocks), 82.1% males, median age 61[IQR: 52-75] years. Most of them occurred at home (57%), were witnessed (87%), and were shockable (88.8%). A median of 5[4-7] EES/patients were delivered. The median-time from shock to refibrillation was 25[13-44] s. Multivariate analysis showed that a shorter post-shock hands-off time favoured earlier refibrillation (p = 0.034), as well as older age (p = 0.002) (Fig. 2, Supplementary table).Conclusion: In non-traumatic OHCA, most refibrillations occurred within 45-s post-shock. Age and post-shock hands-off time were the two contributing factors to time to refibrillation.
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- 2020
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