Postresuscitation care and prognostication after cardiac arrest-Does sex matter?

ABSTRACT:

Background

There are conflicting results concerning sex-specific differences in the post-cardiac arrest period. We investigated the sex distribution of patients after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), differences in treatment, complications, outcome and sex-specific performance of biomarkers for prognostication of neurological outcome.

Methods

Prospective observational study including cardiac-arrest (CA) patients treated with mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH) at 33 °C for 24 h or normothermia. We investigated common complications including pneumonia and acute kidney injury (AKI) and neuron-specific enolase, secretoneurin and tau protein as biomarkers of neurological outcome, which was assessed with the cerebral performance categories score at hospital discharg

SUBMITTER: Hasslacher J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9489581 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature