• Resuscitation · Dec 2022

    Determinants of Change in Code Status among Patients with Cardiopulmonary Arrest Admitted to the Intensive Care Unit.

    • Michelle Ploch, Talha Ahmed, Stephan Reyes, Jorge A Irizarry-Caro, Jose E Fossas-Espinosa, Saeed Shoar, Atia Amatullah, Arjun Jogimahanti, Matthew Antonioli, Cesar A Iliescu, Prakash Balan, NaeiniPayam SafaviPSCenter for Cardiac Arrhythmias and Electrophysiology, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX, United States., and Mohammad Madjid.
    • Department of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, United States.
    • Resuscitation. 2022 Dec 1; 181: 190196190-196.

    BackgroundPatients with cardiopulmonary arrest often have a poor prognosis, prompting discussion with families about code status. The impact of socioeconomic factors, demographics, medical comorbidities and medical interventions on code status changes is not well understood.MethodsThis retrospective study included adult patients presenting with cardiac arrest to the intensive care unit of a hospital group between 5/1/2010-5/1/2020. We extracted chart data on socioeconomic factors, demographics, and medical comorbidities.ResultsWe identified 1,254 patients, of which 57.5% were males. Age was different across the groups with (61.2 ± 15.5 years) and without (61.2 ± 15.5 years) code status change (p= <0.0001). Code status was changed in 583 patients (46.5%). Among patients with code status change, the highest prevalence was White patients (34.8%), followed by African Americans (30.9%), and Hispanics (25.4%). Compared to patients who did not have a code status change, those with a change in code status were older (66.7 ± 14.8 years vs 61.2 ± 15.5 years). They were also more likely to receive vasopressor/inotropic support (74.6% vs 58.5%), and broad-spectrum antibiotics (70.3% vs 57.7%). Insurance status, ethnicity, religion, education, and salary did not lead to statistically significant changes in code status.ConclusionsIn patients with cardiopulmonary arrest, code status change was more likely to be influenced by the presence of medical comorbidities and medical interventions during hospitalization rather than by socioeconomic factors.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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