Predictors of successful resuscitation in non-trauma dead-on-arrival children.
BACKGROUND
Dead-on-arrival (DOA) children pose difficult challenges in resuscitation because of the very low survival rate. In this study, we aimed to analyze the factors that may be related to predicting successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).


METHODS
We reviewed the hospital records of 120 DOA children aged younger than 18 years who had been admitted to the emergency department (ED) from 2000 to 2004 and analyzed related factors that may have influenced initial CPR in the non-trauma DOA children. Survival analysis was used to compare differences in survival rate between the non-trauma and trauma DOA children. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to determine the predictive in-hospital CPR duration related to success of initial CPR.


RESULTS
We found the initial cardiac rhythm (P = 0.007), pre-hospital basic life support (BLS) (P < 0.001), mode of transportation (P = 0.019), the period from scene to hospital (P=0.025) and the duration of pre-hospital BLS (P = 0.003) were the significant factors related to initial successful CPR in non-trauma DOA children. Based on the ROC analysis, the cutoff value of in-hospital CPR duration was 23 minutes in non-trauma DOA children.


CONCLUSIONS
We found that in-hospital CPR should be performed for at least 23 minutes in nontrauma DOA children for spontaneous circulation to return.
Lin
Yan-Ren
YR
Department of Emergency Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan.
Wu
Han-Ping
HP
Huang
Chin-Yi
CY
Chang
Chin-Fu
CF
D000293:Adolescent; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; D002648:Child; D046688:Child Mortality; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004632:Emergency Medical Services; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007226:Infant Mortality; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011379:Prognosis; D012372:ROC Curve; D012189:Retrospective Studies