• Amit Bansal, Tirath Singh, Gautam Ahluwalia, and Parminder Singh.
• Department of Emergency Medicine, Dayanand Medical College and Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab, India.
• Indian J Crit Care Med. 2016 Mar 1; 20 (3): 159-63.

BackgroundOutcome and predictors of survival after cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in Intensive Care Units (ICUs) have been extensively studied in western world, but data from developing countries is sparse.ObjectivesTo study the outcome and predictors of survival after CPR in a Medical ICU (MICU) of a tertiary level teaching hospital in North India.Materials And MethodsA 1-year prospective cohort study.ResultsOf 105 in-MICU CPRs, forty patients (38.1%) achieved return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Only one patient (0.9%) survived up to hospital discharge. The predictors of ROSC were ventricular tachycardia/ventricular fibrillation as first monitored rhythm, intubation during CPR and CPR duration ≤ 10 min. CPR duration > 10 min was a significant factor for resuscitation failure.ConclusionsThe rate of survival to hospital discharge after in-MICU CPRs is extremely poor. Our data may aid treating physicians, resuscitation teams, and families in understanding the likely outcome of patients after in-MICU CPRs.

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