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Does the location of cardiac arrest (IHCA vs OHCA) independently predict outcomes in patients admitted to intensive care after return of spontaneous circulation?
Does the location of cardiac arrest (IHCA vs OHCA) independently predict outcomes in patients admitted to intensive care after return of spontaneous circulation?
Cardiac arrest characteristics, rather than the location of the arrest (in-hospital vs out-of-hospital), are independent predictors of outcome for patients admitted to the ICU after return of spontaneous circulation.
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Location should not yet guide post-ROSC ICU decisions; leaves open whether arrest characteristics refine prognostication.
In patients admitted to intensive care after cardiac arrest, patients who suffered IHCA vs OHCA differed in demographics, co-morbidities, cardiac arrest characteristics and outcomes. In multivariable analyses, cardiac arrest characteristics were independent predictors of outcome, whereas location of arrest (IHCA vs OHCA) was not.
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Andersson et al. (2022) studied this question.
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