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As part of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium PRIMED trial involving 10 regional clinical centers across North America, investigators assessed the association between peri-shock pause and survival to hospital discharge in 2006 adults with nontraumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and initial shockable rhythms.
Pre-shock pause was defined as the time interval between cessation of chest compressions and delivery of shock; post-shock pause as the time between shock delivery and resumption of chest compressions; and peri-shock pause as the sum of pre- and post-shock pause times.
After adjustment for Utstein survival predictors, chest compression fraction, and compression rate, the odds of survival to hospital discharge were higher in patient…