Minerva cardioangiologica
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Minerva cardioangiologica · Aug 2013
Neurological recovery after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: hospital admission predictors and one-year survival in an urban cardiac network experience.
The aim of the study was to detect early predictors of neurological recovery and evaluate one year survival related to neurological status at discharge in patients (pts) admitted after out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). ⋯ Forty-one percent of pts admitted to our tertiary centre after OHCA were discharged with CPC 1-2 and at one year follow-up 96% of these were alive, while all pts classified as CPC 3-4 died. Easily documented information such as the time from OHCA to ROSC and the time of first shock to ROSC are early independent predictors of neurological recovery.