Prediction performance of scoring systems after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Ongoing changes in post resuscitation medicine and society create a range of ethical challenges for clinicians. Withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment is a very sensitive, complex decision to be made by the treatment team and the relatives together. According to the guidelines, prognostication after cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be based on a combination of clinical examination, biomarkers, imaging, and electrophysiological testing. Several prognostic scores exist to predict neurological and mortality outcome in post-cardiac arrest patients. We aimed to perform a meta-analysis and systematic review of current scoring systems used after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

Materials and methods

Our systematic search was conducted in four databases: Medl

SUBMITTER: Kiss B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10833585 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature