Use of transoesophageal echocardiography in the pre-hospital setting to determine compression position in out of hospital cardiac arrest
We present a retrospective cohort study of 19 patients who received pre- hospital intra-arrest TOE. Pre-hospital intra-arrest TOE is feasible and contributed significantly to optimising compression position to increase forward flow without interrupting chest compressions. Future studies are needed to correlate clinical findings with compression position as identified on TOE.
Authors
- Brian Burns
- Neil Shearer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8458-0652)
- Jan M. Dieleman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5867-9341)
- Natalie Kruit (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2904-1610)
- Mark Dennis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1281-1324)
- Ian Ferguson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3060-414X)
- David H. Tian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5213-9499)
Institutions
- New South Wales Department of Health (AU)
- NSW Ambulance (AU)
- Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (AU)
- Westmead Hospital (AU)
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- The George Institute for Global Health (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Resuscitation
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resuscitation.2025.110582
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 11.27
Funders
- National Heart Foundation of Australia