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Impact of protocolized postarrest care with targeted temperature management on the outcomes of cardiac arrest survivors without temperature management.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Protocolized postarrest care that includes targeted temperature management (TTM) improves survival and neurological outcomes in cardiac arrest survivors. Whether the accumulated experience regarding the use of the protocolized approach also benefits patients who did not undergo TTM has yet to be investigated.

Methods

Adults (≥18 years old) with nontraumatic cardiac arrest and who survived to intensive care unit (ICU) admission were retrospectively recruited from a single tertiary medical centre from 2006 to 2009 and 2011 to 2017. Patients were excluded if they had traumatic injuries, were pregnant, did not survive to ICU admission, regained clear consciousness within 3 h after the return of spontaneous circulation, or underwent TTM. The sum of TTM cases since 2006 and before the cardiac arrest of each enrolled patient was used as a substitute index for the amount of experience accumulated from the use of protocolized TTM care.

Results

In total, 802 non-TTM patients were enrolled in the final analysis. The rate of survival to hospital discharge increased from 25.9% in 2006 to 33.3% in 2017. Regarding neurological recovery at hospital discharge, the incidence of favourable neurological function (cerebral performance category: 1 or 2) increased from 10.3% in 2006 to 23.5% in 2017. A multiple logistic regression indicated a significant association between the cumulative TTM case numbers and neurological outcomes in patients who did not receive TTM.

Conclusions

The improvement of neurological outcomes in adult nontraumatic cardiac arrest survivors who did not receive TTM was associated with the cumulative number of cases receiving protocolized TTM care. In the era of TTM, the use of only historical control data might lead to bias, which is caused by overlooking the influence of a more refined protocolized postarrest care that includes TTM.KEY MESSAGEThe cumulative number of cases receiving protocolized TTM care, which we used as a substitute index for the amount of experience accumulated from the use of protocolized postarrest care that includes TTM, was associated with the improvement of neurological outcomes in adult nontraumatic cardiac arrest survivors who did not receive TTM.

SUBMITTER: Ling DA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8725984 | biostudies-literature |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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