Intraosseous infusion performed in the prehospital setting: South Carolina's six-year experience.

Our data do not demonstrate that a prehospital intraosseous infusion protocol will improve the outcome of prehospital pediatric patients with cardiac arrest. The number of patients in our study is too small to allow us to draw a conclusion as to the effect of intraosseous infusion on altering survivability of pediatric cardiac arrest in the prehospital setting. More study is necessary to determine whether there might be a group of pediatric patients with cardiac arrest or hypovolemic shock who could potentially benefit in a prehospital setting from this procedure.