Identifying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with no chance of survival: An independent validation of prediction rules

Hreinsson, Johann P.; Thorvaldsson, Asgeir P.; Magnusson, Vidar; Fridriksson, Brynjar T.; Libungan, Berglind G.; Karason, Sigurbergur

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2019.11.001

Identifying out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with no chance of survival: An independent validation of prediction rules

Background The Basic life support (BLS) and Advanced life support (ALS) are known prediction rules for termination of resuscitation (TOR) in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Recently, a new rule was developed by Jabre et al. We aimed to independently validate and compare the predictive accu…