ROSC at hospital admission in out of hospital cardiac arrest using LUCAS

Effectiveness of the LUCAS device for mechanical chest compression after cardiac arrest: systematic review of experimental, observational and animal studies

“…In both there was a small increase in the proportion surviving in the LUCAS arm, but the 95% CI included both benefit and harm. Five studies (all prehospital) provided data on survival to hospital discharge or 3 months20 21 23 26 27 (figure 2): there was a wide range of risk ratios, from 0.25 to 7.33, although the extreme results derive from small studies with very wide CI. There was moderately high statistical heterogeneity among these results (I 2 =40%).…”