Abstract 202: Video Laryngoscopy for Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest

Introduction: Intubation is an essential component of cardiac arrest resuscitation. While prior studies have evaluated video laryngoscopy (VL) to assist intubation for in hospital cardiac arrest, there is a paucity of research evaluating VL for out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). We sought to evaluate the association of video laryngoscopy with first pass success and ROSC. Hypothesis: Video laryngoscopy improves first pass success rate and improves the rate of ROSC Methods: We analyzed the 2018 data from ESO Inc. (Austin, TX), a national prehospital electronic health record used by 1289 EMS agencies in the US. We included all adult (age >18 years), non-traumatic cardiac arrests that were intubated with an endotracheal device. We applied a chi2 test to evaluate the first pass success rate for VL vs direct laryngoscopy (DL). We then created a mixed model, fitting agency as a random intercept and adjusting for age, gender, race, location of arrest, witnessed arrest, initial shockable rhythm, and bystander CPR. We applied the mixed model to analyze the association between VL and first pass success rate, ROSC, and sustained ROSC (survival to ED or ROSC for greater than 20 minutes). Results: We included 22,097 patients cared for by 914 agencies. 5,674 (25.7%) patients were intubated with video laryngoscopy. The median age was 66 (IQR 55-77). 61.9% of patients were male and 73.0% were white. 71.9% of cardiac arrest happened at home, 56.8% of were witnessed, 37.4% had bystander CPR, and 20.6% had a shockable rhythm. Compared to DL, VL had a lower rate of bystander CPR (41.4% v 36.1%, p<.001), but other characteristics were similar between the groups. We found that VL had a higher first pass success rate than DL (75.1% v 69.5%, p<.001). Using a mixed model analysis, VL was associated with a higher rate of first pass success (OR 1.5, CI 1.3-1.6), but VL was not associated with improvement in ROSC (OR 1.1, CI 0.97-1.2) or sustained ROSC (OR 1.1, CI 0.9-1.2). Conclusion: VL had a higher first pass success rate than DL, and on adjusted, mixed-model analysis, VL use was associated with increased rate of first pass success. However, VL was not associated with increased rate of ROSC