Tag: Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

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

by Dan Wolf, MD posted March 13, 2023 No Comments

Background: Traumatic cardiac arrest in the prehospital setting carries an extremely high mortality rate. Nevertheless, mortality of prehospital traumatic cardiac arrest (TCA), and survivability with good neurologic outcome, remain the gold standards of trauma care in and out of the …

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Traumatic Cardiac Arrest – Can we Find Prognostic Factors that Predict Survival?

by Zaf Qasim posted July 23, 2020 No Comments

Background: Trauma remains the leading cause of death in the United States for those aged less than 45 years old. Those who arrest from hemorrhage or other traumatic mechanism often carry a very poor prognosis. Various studies have placed the …

Trauma