Journal of cardiology
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Journal of cardiology · Jun 2015
Observational StudyDifferentiating between comatose patients resuscitated from acute coronary syndrome-associated and subarachnoid hemorrhage-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
Upon initial evaluation in the emergency department (ED), it is often difficult to differentiate between comatose patients resuscitated following acute coronary syndrome (ACS)-associated and subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)-associated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). We assessed the clinical differences between resuscitated comatose ACS-OHCA and SAH-OHCA patients during initial evaluation in the ED. ⋯ Initial ED evaluation is sufficient to differentiate between comatose ACS-OHCA and SAH-OHCA patients prior to further diagnostic work-up (e.g. emergent coronary angiography and head computed tomography).