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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Resuscitation. 2016 Jun 11;105:161–164. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2016.05.029

Table 2.

Predictors of attempted and successful prehospital procedures in multivariable regression models.

Outcome variables
Predictor
variables
Prehospital
advanced
airway attempt
Prehospital
advanced
airway success
- all patients
IV attempt IV success -
attempts only
IO attempt IO success -
attempts only
IV or IO
attempt
IV or IO
success - all
patients
Female sex 0.85 (0.77–0.93) 0.94 (0.86–1.02) 0.77 (0.70–0.85) 0.64 (0.56–0.73) 1.47 (1.31–1.66) 0.71 (0.48–1.06) 0.87 (0.78–0.98) 0.78 (0.71–0.86)
Age (per 10 years) 1.00 (0.97–1.03) 1.04 (1.01–1.06) 1.01 (0.98–1.04) 1.11 (1.07–1.15) 0.87 (0.84–0.90) 1.12 (1.00–1.26) 0.94 (0.90–0.97) 0.99 (0.96–1.02)
Witnessed arrest 1.05 (0.95–1.15) 1.07 (0.98–1.16) 1.36 (1.23–1.50) 0.91 (0.79–1.04) 0.94 (0.83–1.05) 0.85 (0.57–1.28) 1.36 (1.20–1.53) 1.16 (1.05–1.28)
Public location 1.02 (0.88–1.17) 0.96 (0.85–1.08) 1.09 (0.93–1.27) 1.22 (0.99–1.52) 0.65 (0.53–0.79) 0.61 (0.40–1.08) 0.94 (0.78–1.12) 0.96 (0.83–1.12)
Bystander CPR 1.19 (1.08–1.31) 1.28 (1.17–1.39) 1.06 (0.96–1.18) 1.20 (1.04–1.38) 1.07 (0.95–1.21) 1.52 (0.99–2.32) 1.19 (1.05–1.35) 1.27 (1.14–1.40)
VF/VT first rhythm 1.06 (0.94–1.19) 1.02 (0.92–1.13) 1.73 (1.51–1.98) 1.80 (1.49–2.18) 0.63 (0.53–0.74) 0.71 (0.43–1.18) 1.65 (1.40–1.95) 1.66 (1.45–1.90)

Cases incuded 15,441 15,413 15,483 13,545 15,483 1,296 15,483 15,483
R2 0.0025 0.0030 0.0165 0.0193 0.0208 0.0192 0.0139 0.0129

IV = Intravenous; IO = Intraosseous; CPR = Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; VF/VT = Ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia