Development and Validation of a Novel Triage Tool for Predicting Cardiac Arrest in the Emergency Department.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early recognition and prevention of in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) have played an increasingly important role in the chain of survival. However, clinical tools for predicting IHCA are scarce, particularly in the emergency department (ED). We sought to estimate the incidence of ED-based IHCA and to develop and validate a novel triage tool, the Emergency Department In-hospital Cardiac Arrest Score (EDICAS), for predicting ED-based IHCA.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study we used electronic clinical warehouse data from a tertiary medical center with approximately 100,000 ED visits per year. We extracted data from 733,398 ED visits over a seven-year period. We selected one ED visit per person and excluded out-of-hospital cardiac arrest or children. Patient

SUBMITTER: Tsai CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8967450 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature