Duration of resuscitation efforts and survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest: an observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

During in-hospital cardiac arrests, how long resuscitation attempts should be continued before termination of efforts is unknown. We investigated whether duration of resuscitation attempts varies between hospitals and whether patients at hospitals that attempt resuscitation for longer have higher survival rates than do those at hospitals with shorter durations of resuscitation efforts.

Methods

Between 2000 and 2008, we identified 64,339 patients with cardiac arrests at 435 US hospitals within the Get With The Guidelines—Resuscitation registry. For each hospital, we calculated the median duration of resuscitation before termination of efforts in non-survivors as a measure of the hospital's overall tendency for longer attempts. We used multilevel regression models t

SUBMITTER: Goldberger ZD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3535188 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature