Circulatory trajectories after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Circulatory failure frequently occurs after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and is part of post-cardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS). The aim of this study was to investigate circulatory disturbances in PCAS by assessing the circulatory trajectory during treatment in the intensive care unit (ICU).

Methods

This was a prospective single-center observational cohort study of patients after OHCA. Circulation was continuously and invasively monitored from the time of admission through the following five days. Every hour, patients were classified into one of three predefined circulatory states, yielding a longitudinal sequence of states for each patient. We used sequence analysis to describe the overall circulatory development and to identify clusters of patients with si

SUBMITTER: Langeland H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8424149 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature