Resuscitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Dissemination of CPR video self-instruction materials to secondary trainees: results from a hospital-based CPR education trial.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) video self-instruction (VSI) materials have been promoted as a scalable approach to increase the prevalence of CPR skills among the lay public, in part due to the opportunity for secondary training (i.e., sharing of training materials). However, the motivations for, and barriers to, disseminating VSI materials to secondary trainees is poorly understood. ⋯ VSI materials represent a strategy for secondary dissemination of CPR training, yet older individuals have a lower likelihood of sharing relative to younger individuals. Further work is warranted to remedy perceived barriers to CPR dissemination among the lay public using VSI approaches.
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Multicenter Study
Effect of Gender on Outcome of Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest in the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium.
This study examined the relationship between gender and outcomes of non-traumatic out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ Women who suffer OHCAs have lower rates of survival and have unfavourable Utstein predictors. When survival is adjusted for these predictors survival is similar between men and women except in younger women suggesting that age modifies the association of gender and survival from OHCA; a result that supports a protective hormonal effect among premenopausal women.
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Multicenter Study
Prognostication of cardiac arrest survivors using low apparent diffusion coefficient cluster volume.
We developed a new neuroprognostication method for cardiac arrest (CA) using the relative volume of the most dominant cluster of low apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) voxels and tested its performance in a multicenter setting. ⋯ Quantitative analysis using DC-LADCV showed impressive performance in determining the prognosis of out-of-hospital CA patients in a multicenter setting.