Tag: Cardiac Arrest

Pupillometry Thresholds for Neuroprognostication

22 November 2024 stephen.waite2@nhs.scot Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

Validating quantitative pupillometry thresholds for neuroprognostication after out‑of‑hospital cardiac arrest. A predefined substudy of the Blood Pressure and Oxygenations Targets After Cardiac Arrest (BOX)‑trial Nyholm. Intensive Care Med 2024; 50:1484–1495. doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07574-6 Clinical Question In adult out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors of presumed cardiac cause who are comatose post-admission, do automated pupillometry thresholds of quantitatively assessed pupillary light reflex (qPLR) < […]

PREOXI Trial – Noninvasive Ventilation for Preoxygenation

In critically ill patients undergoing tracheal intubation does pre-oxygenation with non-invasive ventilation compared with pre-oxygenation with an oxygen mask reduce the incidence of hypoxemia during intubation?

Validation of the MIRACLE 2 Score for Prognostication After OOHCA

22 March 2024 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In patient with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, how does the MIRACLE2 score compare with previously reporting scoring systems, for predicting poor neurological outcome at hospital discharge?

Expedited transfer to a cardiac arrest centre for non-ST-elevation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (ARREST)

6 September 2023 andrew.achilleos@nhs.net Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In patients with non-ST elevation out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, does expedited delivery of patients to a cardiac arrest centre, compared with delivery to the geographically closest hospital, improve all-cause mortality at 30 days?

TAME

19 June 2023 George Walker Evidence-based Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine Leave a comment

In patients resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OOHCA) does targeted mild hypercapnia compared to targeted normocapnia improve 6-month neurological outcomes?

INCEPTION

27 February 2023 Aidan Burrell Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In patients with refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and an initial ventricular arrhythmia, does extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR), as compared with conventional CPR (CCPR), improve survival with a favourable neurologic outcome

DOSEVF

10 November 2022 David Slessor Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In patients with refractory VF, does Double Sequential External Defibrillation or Vector-change Defibrillation improve survival to hospital discharge?

BOX (Oxygen)

8 November 2022 David Slessor Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

In comatose patients following cardiac arrest does a restrictive compared with a liberal oxygenation strategy, reduce death or survival at discharge with a poor neurological outcome?

BOX Trial: Blood Pressure

14 October 2022 Alastair Brown Intensive Care Medicine, Summaries Leave a comment

Blood-Pressure Targets in Comatose Survivors of Cardiac Arrest Kjaergaard et al | New England Journal of Medicine| August 2022 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2208687 Clinical Question In patients with return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) after cardiac arrest does a higher MAP target (> 77mmHg) compared to a standard target (>63mmHg) reduce death or survival at discharge with a poor neurological status? Background Manipulation […]

Prague OHCA

25 March 2022 George Walker Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care Medicine 2 comments

In patients with a witnessed refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) does early intra-arrest transport, extracorporeal CPR (ECPR) and invasive assessment improve neurological outcome at 180 days?

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