Resuscitation of pre-hospital traumatic cardiac arrest: Futile or not?

Hems vs. Ground-BLS Care in Traumatic Cardiac Arrest

“…It is also noteworthy that another paper from a European, physician-led HEMS service, similar to ours, analyzing the outcome of patients resuscitated from traumatic CA concluded against the futility of this practice. 15 Unfortunately, no organ was procured from any of the patients who died in hospital, but it is evident that only patients of the HEMS group could have been considered for this purpose. Indeed, in an unpublished study in 1997 16 , three of the 111 patients resuscitated by FVG HEMS became organ donors.…”