Why the study?
Does advanced cardiac life support and perioperative critical care improve survival in patients experiencing intraoperative cardiac arrest during noncardiothoracic surgery?
Does advanced cardiac life support and perioperative critical care improve survival in patients experiencing intraoperative cardiac arrest during noncardiothoracic surgery?
Survival to discharge after intraoperative cardiac arrest during noncardiac surgery was 38%, with mortality strongly predicted by the need for pressor/inotropic support and arrest duration greater than 15 minutes.
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38% survival in this small series should not change practice; leaves open ACLS benefits in noncardiothoracic intraoperative arrest and requires prospective validation.
Leonard N. Girardi (1995) studied this question.
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