Abdominal organ injury in cardiac arrest: Systematic literature review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Both cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and ischaemia could lead to abdominal organ injury. However, the importance of abdominal injury in cardiac arrest remains uncertain. We aimed to systematically review indexed literature to describe incidence of abdominal injury after non-traumatic cardiac arrest and associations with outcome.

Methods

We searched MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews and Scopus up to 12th September 2024 for studies reporting differences in outcomes between patients with and without abdominal injury, and all studies reporting abdominal adverse events after cardiac arrest. Two independent reviewers screened articles for eligibility. One reviewer extracted data and assessed risk of bias using the Critical Appraisal

SUBMITTER: Hoftun Farbu B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12316268 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature