Does temperature management improve outcome in patients resuscitated from a non-shockable rhythm?
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SUBMITTER: Thomsen JH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5506164 | biostudies-literature |
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Project description:IntroductionRetrospective studies have shown conflicting benefit of utilizing targeted temperature management (TTM) in cardiac arrest (CA) patients with a non-shockable rhythm and presently there is only one randomized trial in this realm. We sought to determine trends and outcomes of TTM utilization in these patients from a large nationally representative United States population database.Methods and resultsData were derived from National Inpatient Sample (NIS) from January 2006 to December 2013. All patients were identified using the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) codes. Patients with evidence of shockable rhythm (ventricular tachycardia, ventricular flutter and ventricular fibrillation) were excluded. Trends in TTM utilization and mortality were assessed over our study period. Various outcomes were measured in patients receiving TTM and no TTM in unmatched and propensity matched cohorts. Logistic regression analysis was done to determine predictors of mortality. A total of 1,185,479 CA patients were identified in whom cause of arrest was a non-shockable rhythm. Overall, there was a steady increase in TTM utilization over our study period. In propensity-matched groups, mortality was higher in patients in whom TTM was utilized compared to non-TTM group (72.9% vs 68.7%, P < .01). In adjusted analysis, TTM remains an independent predictor of increased mortality in our group. Mortality remained high with TTM utilization regardless of location of CA.ConclusionsTTM utilization was associated with increased mortality in CA patients with a non-shockable rhythm. These findings merit further confirmation in a large randomized trial before application into clinical practice.
| S-EPMC7457429 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundLittle is known about the effectiveness of surface cooling (SC) and endovascular cooling (EC) on the outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients receiving target temperature management (TTM) according to their initial rhythm.MethodsWe retrospectively analysed data from the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest registry, a multicentre, prospective nationwide database in Japan. For our analysis, OHCA patients aged ≥ 18 years who were treated with TTM between June 2014 and December 2017 were included. The primary outcome was 30-day survival with favourable neurological outcome defined as a Glasgow-Pittsburgh cerebral performance category score of 1 or 2. Cooling methods were divided into the following groups: SC (ice packs, fans, air blankets, and surface gel pads) and EC (endovascular catheters and any dialysis technique). We investigated the efficacy of the two categories of cooling methods in two different patient groups divided according to their initially documented rhythm at the scene (shockable or non-shockable) using multivariable logistic regression analysis and propensity score analysis with inverse probability weighting (IPW).ResultsIn the final analysis, 1082 patients were included. Of these, 513 (47.4%) had an initial shockable rhythm and 569 (52.6%) had an initial non-shockable rhythm. The proportion of patients with favourable neurological outcomes in SC and EC was 59.9% vs. 58.3% (264/441 vs. 42/72), and 11.8% (58/490) vs. 21.5% (17/79) in the initial shockable patients and the initial non-shockable patients, respectively. In the multivariable logistic regression analysis, differences between the two cooling methods were not observed among the initial shockable patients (adjusted odd ratio [AOR] 1.51, 95% CI 0.76-3.03), while EC was associated with better neurological outcome among the initial non-shockable patients (AOR 2.21, 95% CI 1.19-4.11). This association was constant in propensity score analysis with IPW (OR 1.40, 95% CI 0.83-2.36; OR 1.87, 95% CI 1.01-3.47 among the initial shockable and non-shockable patients, respectively).ConclusionWe suggested that the use of EC was associated with better neurological outcomes in OHCA patients with initial non-shockable rhythm, but not in those with initial shockable rhythm. A TTM implementation strategy based on initial rhythm may be important.
| S-EPMC8626556 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundTargeted temperature management (TTM) is recommended in adult patients following cardiac arrest (CA) with any rhythm. However, as to non-shockable (NSR) CA, high-quality evidence of TTM supporting its practices remains uncertain. Thus, we aimed to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis with randomized controlled trials (RCTs) to explore the efficacy and safety of TTM in this population.MethodsWe searched PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library databases for potential trials from inception through Aug 25, 2021. RCTs evaluating TTM for CA adults due to NSR were included, regardless of the timing of cooling initiation. Outcome measurements were mortality and good neurological function. We used the Cochrane bias tools to evaluate the quality of the included studies. Heterogeneity, subgroup analyses, and sensitivity analysis were investigated to test the robustness of the primary outcomes.ResultsA total of 14 RCTs with 4,009 adults were eligible for the final analysis. All trials had a low to moderate risk of bias. Of the included trials, six compared NSR patients with or without TTM, while eight compared pre-hospital to in-hospital TTM. Pooled data showed that TTM was not associated with improved mortality (Risk ratio [RR] 1.00; 95% CI, 0.944-1.05; P = 0.89, I 2 = 0%) and good neurological outcome (RR 1.18; 95% CI 0.90-1.55; P = 0.22, I 2 = 8%). Similarly, use of pre-hospital TTM resulted in neither an improved mortality (RR 0.99, 95% CI 0.97-1.03; I 2 = 0%, P = 0.32) nor favorable neurological outcome (RR 1.13, 95% CI 0.93-1.38; I 2 = 0%, P = 0.22). These results were further confirmed in the sensitivity analyses and subgroup analyses.ConclusionsOur results showed that using the TTM strategy did not significantly affect the mortality and neurologic outcomes in CA survival presenting initial NSR.
| S-EPMC9203727 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundPatients admitted after cardiac arrest with non-shockable rhythm frequently experience hemodynamic instability. This study assessed the hemodynamic consequences of TTM in this sub population.MethodsThis is a post hoc analysis of the HYPERION trial (NCT01994772), that randomized patients to either hypothermia or normothermia after non-shockable rhythm related cardiac arrest. Patients with no, moderate or severe circulatory failure were identified with cardiovascular Sequential Organ Failure Assessment at randomization. Primary outcome was the number of patients at day 7 with resolution of shock, accounting for the risk of death (competing risk analysis). Secondary endpoint included neurological outcome and death at day-90.Results584 patients were included in the analysis: 195 (34%), 46 (8%) and 340 (59%) had no, moderate and severe circulatory failure, respectively. Resolution of circulatory failure at day 7 was more frequently observed in the normothermia group than in the TTM group (60% [95 %CI 54-66] versus 53% [95 %CI 46-60], Gray-test: p = 0.016). The severity of circulatory failure at randomization was associated with its less frequent resolution at day 7 accounting for the risk of death (76 % [62-86] versus 54% [49-59] for patients with moderate versus severe circulatory failure, Gray test, p < 0.001, respectively). At day 90, the proportion of patients with Cerebral Performance Category score of 1 or 2 was lower in patients presenting severe circulatory failure (p = 0.038).ConclusionCirculatory failure is frequent after CA with non-shockable rhythm. Its severity at admission and TTM were associated with delayed resolution of circulatory failure.
| S-EPMC9289859 | biostudies-literature
Project description:In 2013 the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium developed an organized approach for the management of patients resuscitated from shockable rhythms to gain early access to the cardiac catheterization laboratory (CCL) in the metro area of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Eleven hospitals with 24/7 percutaneous coronary intervention capabilities agreed to provide early (within 6 hours of arrival at the Emergency Department) access to the CCL with the intention to perform coronary revascularization for outpatients who were successfully resuscitated from ventricular fibrillation/ventricular tachycardia arrest. Other inclusion criteria were age >18 and <76 and presumed cardiac etiology. Patients with other rhythms, known do not resuscitate/do not intubate, noncardiac etiology, significant bleeding, and terminal disease were excluded. The primary outcome was survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurological outcome. Patients (315 out of 331) who were resuscitated from VT/VF and transferred alive to the Emergency Department had complete medical records. Of those, 231 (73.3%) were taken to the CCL per the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium protocol while 84 (26.6%) were not taken to the CCL (protocol deviations). Overall, 197 (63%) patients survived to hospital discharge with good neurological outcome (cerebral performance category of 1 or 2). Of the patients who followed the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium protocol, 121 (52%) underwent percutaneous coronary intervention, and 15 (7%) underwent coronary artery bypass graft. In this group, 151 (65%) survived with good neurological outcome, whereas in the group that did not follow the Minnesota Resuscitation Consortium protocol, 46 (55%) survived with good neurological outcome (adjusted odds ratio: 1.99; [1.07-3.72], P=0.03). Early access to the CCL after cardiac arrest due to a shockable rhythm in a selected group of patients is feasible in a large metropolitan area in the United States and is associated with a 65% survival rate to hospital discharge with a good neurological outcome.
| S-EPMC4859384 | biostudies-literature
Project description:AimWe aimed to identify subphenotypes among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) with initial non-shockable rhythm by applying machine learning latent class analysis and examining the associations between subphenotypes and neurological outcomes.MethodsThis study was a retrospective analysis within a multi-institutional prospective observational cohort study of OHCA patients in Osaka, Japan (the CRITICAL study). The data of adult OHCA patients with medical causes and initial non-shockable rhythm presenting with OHCA between 2012 and 2016 were included in machine learning latent class analysis models, which identified subphenotypes, and patients who presented in 2017 were included in a dataset validating the subphenotypes. We investigated associations between subphenotypes and 30-day neurological outcomes.ResultsAmong the 12,594 patients in the CRITICAL study database, 4,849 were included in the dataset used to classify subphenotypes (median age: 75 years, 60.2% male), and 1,465 were included in the validation dataset (median age: 76 years, 59.0% male). Latent class analysis identified four subphenotypes. Odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for a favorable 30-day neurological outcome among patients with these subphenotypes, using group 4 for comparison, were as follows; group 1, 0.01 (0.001-0.046); group 2, 0.097 (0.051-0.171); and group 3, 0.175 (0.073-0.358). Associations between subphenotypes and 30-day neurological outcomes were validated using the validation dataset.ConclusionWe identified four subphenotypes of OHCA patients with initial non-shockable rhythm. These patient subgroups presented with different characteristics associated with 30-day survival and neurological outcomes.
| S-EPMC9136939 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BackgroundPatients with shockable sudden cardiac arrest (SCA; ventricular fibrillation/tachycardia) have significantly better resuscitation outcomes than do those with nonshockable rhythm (pulseless electrical activity/asystole). Heart failure (HF) increases the risk of SCA, but presenting rhythms have not been previously evaluated.ObjectiveWe hypothesized that based on unique characteristics, HFpEF (HF with preserved ejection fraction; left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] ≥50%), bHFpEF (HF with borderline preserved ejection fraction; LVEF >40% and <50%), and HFrEF (HF with reduced ejection fraction; LVEF ≤40%) manifest differences in presenting rhythm during SCA.MethodsConsecutive cases of SCA with HF (age ≥18 years) were ascertained in the Oregon Sudden Unexpected Death Study (2002-2019). LVEF was obtained from echocardiograms performed before and unrelated to the SCA event. Presenting rhythms were identified from first responder reports. Logistic regression was used to evaluate the independent association of presenting rhythm with HF subtype.ResultsOf 648 subjects with HF and SCA (median age 72 years; interquartile range 62-81 years), 274 had HFrEF (23.4% female), 92 had bHFpEF (35.9% female), and 282 had HFpEF (42.5% female). The rates of shockable rhythms were 44.5% (n = 122), 48.9% (n = 45), and 27.0% (n = 76) for HFrEF, bHFpEF, and HFpEF, respectively (P < .001). Compared with HFpEF, the adjusted odds ratios for shockable rhythm were 1.86 (95% confidence interval 1.27-2.74; P = .002) in HFrEF and 2.26 (95% CI 1.35-3.77; P = .002) in bHFpEF. The rates of survival to hospital discharge were 10.6% (n = 29) in HFrEF, 22.8% (n = 21) in bHFpEF, and 9.9% (n = 28) in HFpEF (P = .003).ConclusionThe rates of shockable rhythm during SCA depend on the HF clinical subtype. Patients with bHFpEF had the highest likelihood of shockable rhythm, correlating with the highest rates of survival.
| S-EPMC7541513 | biostudies-literature
Project description:BACKGROUND:Dyscarbia is common in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients and its association to neurological outcome is undetermined. METHODS:This is an exploratory post-hoc substudy of the Target Temperature Management (TTM) trial, including resuscitated OHCA patients, investigating the association between serial measurements of arterial partial carbon dioxide pressure (PaCO2) and neurological outcome at 6 months, defined by the Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) scale, dichotomized to good outcome (CPC 1 and 2) and poor outcome (CPC 3-5). The effects of hypercapnia and hypocapnia, and the time-weighted mean PaCO2 and absolute PaCO2 difference were analyzed. Additionally, the association between mild hypercapnia (6.0-7.30 kPa) and neurological outcome, its interaction with target temperature (33 °C and 36 °C), and the association between PaCO2 and peak serum-Tau were evaluated. RESULTS:Of the 939 patients in the TTM trial, 869 were eligible for analysis. Ninety-six percent of patients were exposed to hypocapnia or hypercapnia. None of the analyses indicated a statistical significant association between PaCO2 and neurological outcome (P?=?0.13-0.96). Mild hypercapnia was not associated with neurological outcome (P?=?0.78) and there was no statistically significant interaction with target temperature (Pinteraction?=?0.95). There was no association between PaCO2 and peak serum-Tau levels 48 or 72 h after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). CONCLUSIONS:Dyscarbia is common after ROSC. No statistically significant association between PaCO2 in the post-cardiac arrest phase and neurological outcome at 6 months after cardiac arrest was detected. There was no significant interaction between mild hypercapnia and temperature in relation to neurological outcome.
| S-EPMC6098627 | biostudies-literature
Project description:AimTo determine whether the removal of atropine from the 2010 ACLS guidelines for non-shockable cardiac arrests was associated with a change in survival.MethodsUsing the Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation registry, we included adults with an index in-hospital cardiac arrest between 2006 and 2015. The primary outcome was survival to hospital discharge. Secondary outcomes included return of spontaneous circulation and favorable functional outcome. An interrupted time-series analysis was used to compare survival before (pre-guidelines) and after (post-guidelines) introduction of the 2010 guidelines. A difference-in-difference approach was used to compare the interrupted time-series results between the non-shockable and shockable cohorts to account for guideline changes unrelated to atropine.ResultsWe included 20,499 non-shockable and 3968 shockable cardiac arrests. Patient characteristics were similar between the pre-guidelines and post-guidelines period. Atropine was used for 8653 (87%) non-shockable and 680 (35%) shockable cardiac arrests in the pre-guidelines period and 3643 (35%) non-shockable and 320 (16%) shockable cardiac arrests in the post-guidelines period. The change over time in survival from the pre-guidelines to the post-guidelines period was not significantly different for the non-shockable compared to the shockable cohort (risk difference: 2.0% [95%CI: -0.8, 4.8] per year, p = 0.17). The immediate change in survival after introducing the guidelines was also not different between the cohorts (risk difference: 3.5% [95%CI: -2.6, 9.7], p = 0.26). Results were similar for the secondary outcomes and in multiple sensitivity analyses.ConclusionsThe removal of atropine from the 2010 guidelines was not associated with a significant change in survival.
| S-EPMC6467532 | biostudies-literature
Project description:To investigate the impact of coronary artery disease in a cohort of patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest with non-diagnostic electrocardiogram.From March 2004 to February 2016, 203 consecutive patients resuscitated from in or out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest and non-diagnostic post-resuscitation electrocardiogram (defined as ST segment elevation or pre-sumably new left bundle branch block) who underwent invasive coronary angiogram during hospitalization were included. For purpose of analysis and comparison, patients were classified in two groups: Initial shockable rhythm (ventricular tachycardia or ventricular fibrillation; n = 148, 72.9%) and initial non-shockable rhythm (n = 55, 27.1%). Baseline characteristics, coronary angiogram findings including Syntax Score and long-term survival rates were compared.Sudden cardiac arrest was witnessed in 95.2% of cases, 66.7% were out-of-hospital patients and 72.4% were male. There were no significant differences in baseline characteristics between groups except for higher mean age (68.1 years vs 61 years, P = 0.001) in the non-shockable rhythm group. Overall 5-year mortality of the resuscitated patients was 37.4%. Patients with non-shockable rhythms had higher mortality (60% vs 29.1%, P < 0.001) and a worst neurological status at hospital discharge based on cerebral performance category score (CPC 1-2: 32.7% vs 53.4%, P = 0.02). Although there were no significant differences in global burden of coronary artery disease defined by Syntax Score (mean Syntax Score: 10.2 vs 10.3, P = 0.96) there was a trend towards a higher incidence of acute coronary lesions in patients with shockable rhythm (29.7% vs 16.4%, P = 0.054). There was also a higher need for ad-hoc percutaneous coronary intervention in this group (21.9% vs 9.1%, P = 0.03).Initial shockable group of patients had a trend towards higher incidence of acute coronary lesions and higher need of ad-hoc percutaneous intervention vs non-shockable group.
| S-EPMC5583543 | biostudies-other