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The Impact of Emergency Interventions and Patient Characteristics on the Risk of Heart Failure in Patients with Nontraumatic OHCA.

Cheng Hsu ChenChih-Yu ChangMei-Chueh YangJr-Hau WuChing-Hui LiaoChih-Pei SuYu-Chih ChenShinn-Ying HoCheng-Chieh HuangTsung-Han LeeWen Liang ChenChu-Chung ChouYan-Ren Lin
Published in: Emergency medicine international (2019)
An age from 61 to 75 years, a history of myocardial infarction or cardiomyopathy, and ischemic heart disease or infection as comorbidities occurring during hospitalization were strong risk factors for new-onset heart failure in OHCA patients. However, ECMO could decrease this risk. More importantly, most heart failure events occurred within 60 days after OHCA.
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