Surrogate markers of transport distance for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patientsMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University MTC, Columbus, Ohio 43210 1228, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:266-72. 2012
..Transport of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients expeditiously to appropriately equipped hospitals is of paramount importance...
A geospatial assessment of transport distance and survival to discharge in out of hospital cardiac arrest patients: Implications for resuscitation centersMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA
Resuscitation 81:518-23. 2010
..We sought to assess the survival of OOHCA patients by transport distance and hospital proximity...
Distance impacts mortality in trauma patients with an intubation attemptMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 12:459-66. 2008
..We sought to determine whether patients injured farther from the hospital benefit more from OOH-ETI than those injured closer...
Are all trauma centers created equally? A statewide analysisMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, USA
Acad Emerg Med 17:701-8. 2010
..This study sought to assess the potential differences in mortality as well as discharge destination (discharge to home vs. to a rehabilitation center or skilled nursing facility) across Level I TCs in the state of Ohio...
Prehospital factors associated with mortality in injured air medical patientsMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio 43210 1228, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:121-7. 2012
..Air medical transport provides rapid transport to definitive care. Overtriage and the expense and risk of transport may offset survival benefits...
Level I versus Level II trauma centers: an outcomes-based assessmentMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
J Trauma 66:1321-6. 2009
..Level II hospitals) remains unclear. We sought to determine whether there was a difference in the patient outcome in trauma victims taken to Level I versus Level II trauma centers...
Identifying high-risk geographic areas for cardiac arrest using three methods for cluster analysisComilla Sasson
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA
Acad Emerg Med 19:139-46. 2012
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Modification of Glasgow Coma Scale criteria for injured eldersJeffrey M Caterino
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
Acad Emerg Med 18:1014-21. 2011
..This study sought to determine if a field GCS of 14 is an appropriate cutoff to initiate transport to a trauma center among injured elders...
The impact of rapid sequence intubation on trauma patient mortality in attempted prehospital intubationMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
J Emerg Med 38:175-81. 2010
..Rapid sequence intubation (RSI) has been instituted in some prehospital settings to improve the success of endotracheal intubation (ETI); whether RSI improves outcomes is unclear...
Endotracheal intubation increases out-of-hospital time in trauma patientsMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, Center for Policy and Research in Emergency Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, OR, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 11:224-9. 2007
..We sought to assess the difference in OOH time among trauma patients with and without OOH-ETI after accounting for distance and other clinical variables...
Prehospital electrocardiograms (ECGs) do not improve the process of emergency department care in hospitals with higher usage of ECGs in non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patientsMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA
Clin Cardiol 32:668-75. 2009
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Increasing hospital volume is not associated with improved survival in out of hospital cardiac arrest of cardiac etiologyMichael T Cudnik
Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
Resuscitation 83:862-8. 2012
..We analyzed the relationship between survival and hospital volume among patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)...
Poisson cluster analysis of cardiac arrest incidence in Columbus, OhioCraig Warden
Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239, USA
Prehosp Emerg Care 16:338-46. 2012
..Scarce resources in disease prevention and emergency medical services (EMS) need to be focused on high-risk areas of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA)...