• Resuscitation · Aug 2018

    Relationship between ventricular characteristics on brain computed tomography and 6-month neurologic outcome in cardiac arrest survivors who underwent targeted temperature management.

    • Dong Hun Lee, Byung Kook Lee, Kyung Woon Jeung, Yong Hun Jung, Yong Soo Cho, In Soo Cho, Chun Song Youn, Jin Woong Kim, Jung Soo Park, and Yong Il Min.
    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chonnam National University Hospital, 42 Jebong-ro, Donggu, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
    • Resuscitation. 2018 Aug 1; 129: 37-42.

    Aim Of The StudyBrain swelling after cardiac arrest may affect the ventricles. We aimed to investigate the prognostic performance of ventricular characteristics on brain computed tomography (CT) in cardiac arrest survivors who underwent targeted temperature management (TTM).MethodsThis retrospective cohort study included adult comatose cardiac arrest survivors who underwent brain CT scan within 24 h after resuscitation and underwent TTM from 2014 to 2016. The ventricular areas (lateral, third, and fourth ventricle), distances between the anterior horns of the lateral ventricle (LV) and the posterior horns of the LV, and maximal internal diameter of the skull were measured. Grey-to-white matter ratio (GWR), Evans' index, and relative LV area were calculated. The primary outcome was a 6-month neurologic outcome.ResultsOf 258 patients, 176 (68.2%) had an unfavourable neurologic outcome. GWR, LV area, third ventricle area, distance between the anterior horns of the LV, distance between the posterior horns of the LV, Evans' index, and relative LV area were different between neurologic outcome groups. Evans' index (0.683; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.623-0.739) and relative LV area (0.670; 95% CI, 0.609-0.727) had higher value of area under the curve than the other ventricular characteristics and showed prognostic performance comparable with GWR (0.600; 95% CI, 0.538-0.661). All ventricular characteristics and GWR were not independently associated with neurologic outcome after adjusting for covariates.ConclusionVentricular characteristics on brain CT were associated with 6 months neurologic outcome in cardiac arrest survivors. Ventricular characteristics were objective measures that had comparable prognostic performance with GWR.Copyright © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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