Do combined ultrasound and electrocardiogram-rhythm findings predict survival in emergency department cardiac arrest patients? The Second Sonography in Hypotension and Cardiac Arrest in the Emergency Department (SHoC-ED2) study.
Nicole BeckettPaul R AtkinsonJacqueline FraserAnkona BanerjeeJames FrenchJo-Ann TalbotGeorge StoicaDavid LewisPublished in: CJEM (2020)
The absence of cardiac activity on POCUS, or on both ECG and POCUS together, better predicts negative outcomes in cardiac arrest than ECG alone. No test reliably predicted survival.
Keyphrases
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- emergency department
- cardiopulmonary resuscitation
- heart rate
- end stage renal disease
- heart rate variability
- ejection fraction
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- magnetic resonance imaging
- chronic kidney disease
- prognostic factors
- heart failure
- free survival
- left ventricular
- peritoneal dialysis
- skeletal muscle
- patient reported outcomes
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