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News | January 2015 Changing an ECC Guideline (or Not) By John Stewart, RN The American Heart Associ- ation has advocated for two decades that hospitals purchase and use automated external de- fibrillators to address the problem of delayed defibrillation, first in its teaching materials and officially in their Emergency Cardiac Care (ECC) Guidelines in 2000. A decade after the 2000 guidelines, a large multicenter study by Chan, et al., using AHA data (JAMA 2010;304[19]:2129) and two smaller studies (Crit Care Med 2009;37[4]:1229; Resuscitation 2011;82[12]:1537) provided good evidence that AED use in hospitals has not improved survival from car- diac arrest and appears to have ac- tually decreased survival rates. Those studies engendered criticism of the guidelines in the lay press as having had no evidentiary basis and having been unduly influenced by industry. (“Bad Shock: Automated Devices for Jolting Hearts May Save Fewer Lives in Hospitals.” Fairwarning.org, Nov. 14, 2011; http://bit.ly/1qSEQ1T.) Is it likely that the guideline will be changed in the upcoming AHA/ International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (ILCOR) 2015 Guidelines revision? Signs are not encouraging. The endorsement of AEDs for hospitals has become somewhat more equivocal in the 2010 guidelines, but AED deploy- ment continues to be the only ap- proach offered by AHA/ILCOR to address the problem of delayed in-hospital defibrillation. A 2013 AHA/ILCOR consensus statement on in-hospital resuscitation included an analysis of AED use that reached no conclusion and instead stated that “additional randomized clinical trials are required to evaluate and optimize use of AEDs in the hos- pital.” (Circulation 2013;127[14]:1538; http://bit.ly/1uEzkp2.) My own experience with this issue dates to the mid-1980s when I brought the issue of delayed in- hospital defibrillation to the atten- tion of several ECC researchers. Their response was to promote the use of AEDs by hospitals, an approach that I came to question. I expressed my doubts privately and in print. (Ann Emerg Med 1996;27[1]:104.) The only response I received was a letter from an AHA official inform- ing me that my views were unwel- come. Most recently, I wrote a critique of the 2013 consensus statement analysis, characterizing it as weak and biased in favor of pre- serving the status quo. Following guidance I received from the ECC office, I submitted it to the writing group. I received no response. (The critique is now in press.) My experience is consistent with descriptions in the literature of AHA/ILCOR’s responses to evidence and arguments regard- ing ECC guidelines. (JAMA 2005;293[3]:363; Resuscitation 2005;64[3]:261; Am J Emerg Med 2008;26[5]:618.) Parts of the guidelines may have been intro- duced because they were mar- keted well or seemed to make sense at the time, but they may be continued for years despite little supporting evidence. Poorly supported guidelines are contin- ued by making change contingent on quantities and levels of evid- ence that are difficult if not impossible to achieve in clinical resuscitation research. Changing a guideline with evidence-based arguments may be an agonizingly slow process, but a strong case can be made that the guideline is not only incorrect but illegitimate because its adoption contravened AHA/ILCOR’s stated standards and policies. An AHA of- ficial stated in the “Bad Shock” art- icle that the guideline mandating AEDs for hospitals was “very care- fully considered and based on the evidence available at the time.” That statement is an expression of AHA/ILCOR’s professed standard, but it is not accurate in this case. The ECC Committee issued in 1999 a lengthy and detailed public invitation to submit “evidence-based worksheets” for consideration in the formulation of the 200 guidelines. Two coauthors and I submitted two worksheets, one of which addressed the use of AEDs by trained care- givers. (http://bit.ly/11pv2FY.) These worksheets essentially disappeared, with no written acknowledgment of their existence. My phone inquiries about them were met with vague responses. In making the initial decision on the guideline endorsing AEDs in hospitals, AHA/ILCOR’s AED/Public Access Defibrillation Panel did not consider our invited worksheet on AEDs and trained caregivers, nor was it made available for subsequent levels of review. (Ann Emerg Med 2001;37[4 Suppl]:S60.) AHA/ILCOR’s decision to promote the use of AEDs in hospitals was made without consideration of invited evidence that could and should have been considered, and therefore was arguably illegitimate. AHA/ILCOR should explicitly res- cind the guideline mandating in- hospital use of AEDs based on the illegitimacy of the original decision and the current good evidence against it. Relying on AED techno- logy alone to fix the problem of delayed in-hospital defibrillation is a dead end that instead of saving lives appears to decrease survival. But dropping the guideline should not mean a return to ignoring the prob- lem. AHA/ILCOR should actively encourage investigators and hospit- als to explore other approaches to shortening defibrillation delays, with the goal of increasing survival. EMN Access the links in EMN by reading this on our website or in our free iPad app, both available at www. EM-News.com. Comments? Write to us at emn@lww.com. Dustin Ballard, MD Kaiser-Permanente William G. Barsan, MD University of Michigan William Brady, MD University of Virginia Charles Bruen, MD Hennepin Co. 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