Neurologic etiologies of cardiac arrest are associated with early withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Neurologic etiologies of cardiac arrest are uncommon and understudied. We described the characteristics of patients who arrested from neurologic etiologies and tested the hypotheses that survival, rate of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for perceived poor neurologic prognosis (WLST-N), and early (≤1 day from arrest) WLST-N would differ between those who did and did not arrest from neurologic etiologies.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective study of patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest. We described the cohort who arrest from neurologic causes. We assessed survival between patients with and without neurologic arrest etiologies using multivariable logistic regression. We used Fisher's exact test to compare proportion of patients with early WLST-N by arres

SUBMITTER: Faiver L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12530063 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature