Key result
Cardiac arrest survivors match controls overall but high intrusion and avoidance link to emotional disability.
Why the study?
Do out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors experience long-term psychotraumatic symptoms compared to other cardiac patients?
Population
21 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors with sufficient cerebral performance for psychodiagnostic…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
mean 39 months (range 22-64)
Authors
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May identify survivors needing targeted psychological support; hypothesis-generating for screening trials in cardiac arrest cohorts.
Cohort (n=56)
Do out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors experience long-term psychotraumatic symptoms compared to other cardiac patients?
Cardiac arrest survivors are at high risk for serious emotional disability and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, highlighting the need for long-term psychological evaluation.
Ladwig et al. (1999) conducted a cohort in Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (n=56). Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest experience vs. Cardiac patients without cardiac arrest was evaluated on Levels of psychological adjustment and psychotraumatic symptoms. Although cardiac arrest survivors had similar overall psychological adjustment to cardiac controls, those with high intrusion and avoidance scores experienced significantly more emotional disability.
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