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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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The only statistically significant factor intra-arrest was the first ECG rhythm, which only had an odds ratio of 1.12, which is relatively low. Many studies suggest that increased time spent on scene correlates with worse outcomes for trauma (Stiell 2008) and all-cause incidence (Isenberg 2005) across all levels of prehospital care.