Resuscitation
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Observational Study
Focused Cardiac Ultrasound after return of spontaneous circulation in cardiac-arrest patients.
Focused cardiac ultrasound (FOCUS) can be management-altering in post-resuscitation care following cardiac arrest.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
The impact of resuscitation guideline terminology on quality of dispatcher-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation: aA randomised controlled manikin study.
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) guidelines vary in the terminology used to describe target chest compression depth, which may impact CPR quality. We investigated the impact of using different chest compression depth instruction terminologies on CPR quality. ⋯ The use of 'hard and fast' terminology was superior to both 'at least 5 cm' and 'approximately 5 cm' terminologies.
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To evaluate the Inadequate oxygen delivery (IDO2) index dose as a predictor of cardiac arrest (CA) in neonates following congenital heart surgery. ⋯ In neonates post-CPB surgery, higher IDO2 index dose over a 120-min monitoring period is associated with increased risk of cardiac arrest, even when censoring data 10, 20 or 30 min prior to the CA event.
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This study aimed to train, validate and compare predictive models that use machine learning analysis for good neurological recovery in OHCA patients. ⋯ The best performing machine learning algorithm was the XGB and LR algorithm.
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Neurological status at hospital discharge is routinely used to assess patient outcome after cardiac arrest. However, attribution of impairment to the arrest is valid only if baseline neurological status is known. This study evaluated whether incorporating baseline neurological status improves performance of a widely employed neurological outcome scale for quantifying arrest-attributable morbidity. ⋯ Incorporating change-in-CPC into criteria for "good" neurological outcome post-arrest yields discordant results from traditional approaches that consider discharge CPC only and increases face validity of reporting arrest-related morbidity.