Functional Outcomes: One Year after a Cardiac Arrest.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The study aim was to characterize the time-course of recovery in impairments, activity limitations, participation restrictions, disability, and quality of life during the first year after cardiac arrest. Secondarily, the study described the associations between the instruments used to measure each of these domains.

Methods

Measures of global disability (Cerebral Performance Category, CPC, Modified Rankin Scale, mRS), quality of life, activity limitations, participation restrictions, and affective and cognitive impairments were administered to 29 participants 1, 6, and 12 months after cardiac arrest.

Results

Global measures of disability indicated recovery between one month and one year after cardiac arrest (mean CPC: 2.1 versus 1.69,  P < 0.05; mean mRS: 2.5

SUBMITTER: Raina KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4573239 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature