Resuscitation
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Observational Study
DONORS BRAIN-DEAD AFTER SUCCESFULL RESUSCITATION OF CARDIAC ARREST: EARLY OUTCOME AND POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS OF LUNG RECIPIENTS.
The outcomes of lung transplantation (LT) recipients who received a graft from a brain-dead donor after successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest (CA donors) have been poorly described. This study compared the one-year survival of LT recipients depending on the CA status of the donor. ⋯ Receiving a graft from a CA donor did not worsen the outcome of LT recipients. Acceptation of these grafts must be systematically considered to increase the pool of available grafts.
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To validate the ERC-recommended facial landmark-distance for oropharyngeal airway sizing in children. ⋯ German Clinical Trials Register; DRKS00025918.
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Signs of hypoxic ischaemic encephalopathy (HIE) on head computed tomography (CT) predicts poor neurological outcome after cardiac arrest. We explore whether levels of brain injury markers in blood could predict the likelihood of HIE on CT. ⋯ Biomarker levels can assess the likelihood of a patient presenting with HIE on CT and could be used to select suitable patients for CT-examination during neurological prognostication in unconscious cardiac arrest patients.
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Despite improvements in short-term survival for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) in the past two decades, long-term survival is still not well studied. Furthermore, the contribution of different variables on long-term survival have not been fully investigated. ⋯ Survivors of an OHCA have a high risk of suffering a re-arrest or death within 1 year from hospital discharge. A machine learning model with 15 different variables, among which age, socioeconomic factors and neurofunctional status at hospital discharge, achieved almost the same predictive capabilities with reasonable precision as the full model with 886 variables.
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Observational Study
Application of Adult Prehospital Resuscitation Rules to Pediatric Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest.
Prehospital termination of resuscitation (TOR) rules can be recommended for adults with out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs). This study aimed to investigate whether adult basic life support (BLS) and advanced life support (ALS) TOR rules can predict neurologically unfavorable one-month outcome for pediatric OHCA patients. ⋯ The adult BLS and ALS TOR rules had a high PPV for predicting pediatric OHCA patients without a neurologically favorable survival at one month after onset.