In-hospital Cardiac Arrest in Patients With Sepsis: A National Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: Background: Little is known about the risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) among patients with sepsis. We aimed to characterize the incidence and outcome of IHCA among patients with sepsis in a national database. We then determined the major risk factors associated with IHCA among sepsis patients. Methods: We used data from a population-based cohort study based on the National Health Insurance Research Database of Taiwan (NHRID) between 2000 and 2013. We used Martin's implementation that combined the explicit ICD-9 CM codes for sepsis and six major organ dysfunction categories. IHCA among sepsis patients was identified by the presence of cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures. The survival impact was analyzed with the Cox proportional-hazards model using inverse probab

SUBMITTER: Duazo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8553946 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature