Resuscitation
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Retraction Of Publication Multicenter Study Observational Study
Inflammatory Markers Following Resuscitation from Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest - a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.
The post-cardiac arrest syndrome is a complex set of pathophysiological processes including a systemic inflammatory response. The goal of the current investigation was to test the hypothesis that early inflammatory markers are independently associated with in-hospital mortality and poor neurological outcome in patients initially resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. ⋯ Early inflammatory markers, especially IL-6, are higher in patients with a poor outcome after OHCA. IL-6 remained associated with mortality, but not functional outcome, in multivariable analysis adjusting for patient and event characteristics.