Is two-dimensional echocardiography better than electrocardiography for predicting patient outcomes after cardiac arrest?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronary artery stenosis increases hospital mortality and leads to poor neurological recovery in cardiac arrest (CA) patients. However, electrocardiography (ECG) cannot fully predict the presence of coronary artery stenosis in CA patients. Hence, we aimed to determine whether regional wall motion abnormality (RWMA), as observed by two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE), predicted patient survival outcomes with greater accuracy than did ST segment elevation (STE) on ECG in CA patients who underwent coronary angiography (CAG) after return of spontaneous circulation.

Methods

This was a retrospective observational study of adult patients with CA of presumed cardiac etiology who underwent CAG at a single tertiary care hospital. We investigated whether RWMA observed on

SUBMITTER: Kim DK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7940108 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature