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Prehospital Traumatic Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

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Many studies suggest that increased time spent on scene correlates with worse outcomes for trauma (Stiell 2008) and all-cause incidence (Isenberg 2005) across all levels of prehospital care. Clinical Bottom Line: Prehospital TCA has a high mortality and low favorable neurologic outcomes. 2005, 20: 265-70. A literature review.