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Table 1 Background characteristics of participants

From: Clinicians’ experience of barriers and facilitators to care delivery of an extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation service for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a qualitative survey

Characteristic

Number (%)

TVAA

14 (61)

 Doctor

9 (64)

 Critical care paramedic

5 (36)

Number of OHCA cases

 0

1 (7)

 1

11 (79)

 2

2 (14)

 > 2

0 (0)

Harefield Hospital

9 (39)

 Doctor

3 (33)

Intensive care

2 (22)

Cardiology

1 (11)

 Nurse

4 (44)

Intensive care

3 (33)

Unknown

1 (11)

 Perfusionist

2 (22)

Number of OHCA ECPR cases

 0

2 (22)

 1–5

0 (0)

 > 5

7 (77)

Number IHCA ECPR cases

 0

0 (0)

 1–5

2 (22)

 6–10

1 (11)

 11–15

0 (0)

 > 15

6 (66)

  1. Percentages of TVAA and Harefield Hospital of total respondents (/23). All other percentages describe the proportion of TVAA (/14) or Harefield Hospital (/9) clinicians
  2. TVAA Thames Valley Air Ambulance. OHCA out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. IHCA in-hospital cardiac arrest. ECPR extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
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Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine

ISSN: 1757-7241