• Pirkka T Pekkarinen, Giuseppe Ristagno, Erika Wilkman, Serge Masson, Roberto Latini, Johanna Laurikkala, Stepani Bendel, Tero Ala-Kokko, Tero Varpula, Jukka Vaahersalo, Sari Karlsson, Marjaana Tiainen, Monica M Mion, Mario Plebani, Ville Pettilä, Markus B Skrifvars, and FINNRESUSCI Study Group.
• Division of Intensive Care Medicine, Department of Anaesthesiology, Intensive Care and Pain Medicine, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
• Shock. 2018 Oct 1; 50 (4): 395-400.

BackgroundPatients resuscitated from cardiac arrest commonly develop an inflammatory response called post-cardiac arrest syndrome that clinically resembles septic shock.Procalcitonin and presepsin are associated with inflammation. We hypothesized that these biomarkers reflect the severity of post-cardiac arrest syndrome and predict short-term hemodynamical instability and long-term neurological outcome after cardiac arrest.MethodsAs a subcohort analysis of a prospective, observational, multicenter study "FINNRESUSCI," we obtained plasma from 277 intensive care unit (ICU) patients treated following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). Procalcitonin and presepsin levels were measured 0 to 6 h from ICU admission and 24, 48, and 96 h thereafter. We defined poor outcome as a 12-month Cerebral Performance Category of 3 to 5. We tested statistical associations between biomarkers and hemodynamical parameters and outcome with regression models.ResultsPlasma procalcitonin had best predictive value for 12-month poor outcome at 96 h (AUC 0.76; 95% CI 0.68-0.83) and presepsin at ICU admission (AUC 0.72; 95% CI 0.65-0.78). Elevated procalcitonin concentration at ICU admission predicted unstable hemodynamics in the following 48 h in a linear regression model. In a multivariate logistic regression model with clinical variables, only procalcitonin at 96 h had independent prognostic value for poor 12-month neurological outcome.ConclusionsElevated procalcitonin is associated with hemodynamical instability and worsened long-term outcome in OHCA patients. The association is not strong enough for it to be used as a single predictor. Presepsin did not provide clinically relevant information for risk stratification after OHCA.

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