Resuscitation
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To evaluate the association between hyperoxia in the first 24 hours after in-hospital pediatric cardiac arrest and mortality and poor neurological outcome. ⋯ Hyperoxia after pediatric cardiac arrest was common and was not associated with worse in-hospital outcomes.
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There is a need for large-scale epidemiological studies of paediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (POHCA). To enable this, we developed and validated international classification of disease (ICD-10) search algorithms for the identification of POHCA patients from health administrative data. ⋯ It is important that algorithms used for cohort identification are validated prior to use. The ICD-10 code for cardiac arrest alone misses many POHCA cases but the use of additional codes can improve the sensitivity while maintaining specificity.