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Although current guidelines recommend EDT with survival predictors, futility following EDT has been demonstrated and the potential risks have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to elucidate the benefits and harms of EDT for persistent cardiac arrest following injury until hospital arrival. This retrospective cohort study used a nationwide trauma registry (2019\u20132021) and included adult patients with t-OHCA both at the scene and on hospital arrival. Survival to discharge, hemostatic procedure frequency, and transfusion amount were compared between patients treated with and without EDT. Inverse probability weighting using a propensity score was conducted to adjust age, sex, comorbidities, mechanism of injury, prehospital resuscitative procedure, prehospital physician presence, presence of signs of life, degree of thoracic injury, transportation time, and institutional characteristics. Among 1289 patients, 374 underwent EDT. The longest transportation time for survivors was 8 and 23\u00a0min in patients with and without EDT, respectively. EDT was associated with lower survival to discharge (4\/374 [1.1%] vs. 22\/915 [2.4%]; adjusted odds ratio [OR], 0.43 [95% CI 0.22\u20130.84]; <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u20090.011), although patients with EDT underwent more frequent hemostatic surgeries (46.0% vs. 5.0%; adjusted OR, 16.39 [95% CI 12.50\u201321.74]) and received a higher amount of transfusion. Subgroup analyses revealed no association between EDT and lower survival in patients with severe chest injuries (1.0% vs. 1.4%; adjusted OR, 0.72 [95% CI 0.28\u20131.84]). EDT was associated with lower survival till discharge in trauma patients with persistent cardiac arrests after adjusting for various patient backgrounds, including known indications for EDT. 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