Prehospital Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (REBOA) in Patients with Major Trauma and Cardiac Arrest: A Systematic Review.

The search yielded 1,211 articles, 31 registered trials, and 151 conference abstracts, of which 14 case studies, two prospective cohort studies, one retrospective chart review, one clinical trial, and four registered trials met the inclusion criteria.

The included studies were of critical to serious risk of bias due to inherent methodological limitations.

When attempted, prehospital resuscitative endovascular balloon occlusion of the aorta was successfully deployed in 29/38 (76%) of civilian trauma cases, 76/90 (84%) of civilian nontraumatic cardiac arrest cases, and 2/2 (100%) of combat trauma cases.