ArticleMedical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research2018
Polish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Response to Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA): A Retrospective Study.
Article in Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impact of helicopter emergency medical services base operating regime (24 h vs. 07:00-20:00) on mission volume and structure in Poland: a cross-sectional-longitudinal analysis with duty-time standardization (10 March-10 August 2025).BMC health services research · 2026Article
- The Interaction Effect of Age, Initial Rhythm, and Location on Outcomes After Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Retrospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest victims in Austria's largest helicopter emergency medical service: A retrospective cohort study.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- Exploring national and international experiences with community first responder models: protocol for a scoping review.BMJ open · 2024Article
- Development and internal validation of an algorithm for estimating mortality in patients encountered by physician-staffed helicopter emergency medical services.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2024Observational
- Article
- Epidemiology, management, and survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Upper Silesia, Poland: an Utstein-style report.Postepy w kardiologii interwencyjnej = Advances in interventional cardiology · 2021Article
- Polish Medical Air Rescue Interventions Concerning Pregnant Women in Poland: A 10-year Retrospective Analysis.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2021Article
- Barriers and facilitators to cardiopulmonary resuscitation within pre-hospital emergency medical services: a qualitative study.BMC emergency medicine · 2021Article
- Factors associated with return of spontaneous circulation after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Poland: a one-year retrospective study.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2020Article
- Polish Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) Response to Stroke: A Five-Year Retrospective Study.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2019Article
- Adrenaline use as a poor predictor for the return of spontaneous circulation among victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest according to a national emergency medical services database.Turkish journal of emergency medicineArticle
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
BACKGROUND Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a significant clinical challenge for emergency medical systems worldwide. The first step towards ensuring patient survival is achieving return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). The purpose of the study was to analyze the cases of OHCA to which HEMS teams were dispatched. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a retrospective analysis of all HEMS calls in Poland for cases of OHCA between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2016. Data were obtained from medical records maintained by the Polish HEMS. RESULTS The total number of responses to cases of OHCA was 2447. Of this total, 308 cases were excluded from the study as the patient was found not to have cardiac arrest or was confirmed dead. ROSC was achieved in 1119 cases, including 335 cases where ROSC occurred before the arrival of the HEMS team. In the group studied, ROSC was achieved more commonly in women, in patients younger than age 40 years, in CA cases of cardiac origin, and in cases with shockable rhythms (p<0.05). CONCLUSIONS The study results are consistent with global trends in terms of OHCA incidence and the effectiveness of CPR performed on scene. The study also demonstrates that HEMS dispatch to OHCA cases is justified both as a means of providing assistance to EMS teams on scene and as the first choice.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.