Making sense of clinical outcomes following cardiac arrest

Current Opinion in Critical Care
Jignesh K PatelSam Parnia

Abstract

To provide a summary of the recent literature on clinical outcomes in adults with cardiac arrest, focusing on the impact of patient-specific factors in combination with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) related, and postresuscitative-related factors. Cardiac arrest is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite the use of conventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation, rates of return of spontaneous circulation and survival with minimal neurologic impairment remain low. A number of recent studies have examined the impact of patient-specific factors (duration of cardiac arrest, initial rhythm, age, premorbid states), CPR-related (the use of mechanical CPR, the use of impedance threshold device, vasopressors, extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation, active compression-decompression, and impedance threshold device), and postresuscitative-related factors (hypothermia, coronary angiography, hyperoxia, hyper/hypocapnia, mean arterial blood pressure) on cardiac arrest outcomes. Further studies, namely randomized controlled trials, assessing the impact of advanced therapies are warranted to evaluate their impact on survival and neurologic function in adults with cardiac arrest.

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