Patients undergoing out-of-hospital cardiac arrest do not benefit from ACLS during transport

(Society for Academic Emergency Medicine) There is no association between prehospital advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) and survival to hospital discharge in patients suffering from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ACLS is, however, associated with an improvement in prehospital return of spontaneous circulation, but with longer delays to hospital arrival.

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