Role of initial cardiac activity assessed by point-of-care ultrasonography in predicting cardiac arrest outcomes : A prospective cohort study

Copyright: © 2023 Turkish Journal of Emergency Medicine..

OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to investigate the association between visible cardiac activity in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and outcomes of cardiac arrest such as the return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), survival to inpatient admission (SIA), and survival to hospital discharge (STHD).

METHODS: This was a single-center, prospective cohort study conducted in the emergency department (ED). Adult (age >18 years) patients in cardiac arrest were included in the study. Exclusion criteria of the study were - traumatic arrest, out-of-hospital cardiac arrest resuscitated before ED admission, and patients presenting with initial shockable rhythm. Patients whose ultrasound images could not be obtained and whose resuscitation stopped following POCUS were also excluded from the study. POCUS examination was done after 2 min of initiation of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and visible cardiac activity was defined as any visible movement of the myocardium, excluding movement of blood within cardiac chambers, or isolated valve movement. The duration of POCUS examinations was limited to 10 s. The association of initial cardiac activity in POCUS with the outcomes of cardiac arrest was investigated.

RESULTS: Out of 140 patients screened, 84 patients were included in the study. Rates of ROSC, SIA, and STHD were found in 23 (27.4%), 9 (10.7%), and 2 (2.4%) patients, respectively. Only 15 out of 84 (17.9%) patients had cardiac activity on the initial POCUS examination. Cardiac activity was seen in 52.2% of patients with ROSC, which was significantly higher (P < 0.001) as compared with the no-ROSC group (4.9%). Unlike the above association, there was no difference in the incidence of initial cardiac activity in patient groups who got admitted (SIA) and discharged (STHD) versus those who died. In the multivariate regression analysis, the duration of CPR and initial cardiac activity significantly predicted the rate of ROSC, with an adjusted odds ratio of 0.93 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.86-0.99, P = 0.04) and 24.8 (95% CI: 3.17-89.41, P = 0.002), respectively. None of the variables predicted SIA and STHD. The positive likelihood ratio of cardiac activity for predicting ROSC, SIA, and STHD were 10.6, 2.1, and 2.9, respectively.

CONCLUSION: Integration of POCUS in cardiac arrest resuscitation was shown to be helpful in terms of prognostic significance of the presence of initial cardiac activity in terms of ROSC.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:23

Enthalten in:

Turkish journal of emergency medicine - 23(2023), 1 vom: 11. Jan., Seite 24-29

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Thandar, Soumitra [VerfasserIn]
Sahu, Ankit Kumar [VerfasserIn]
Sinha, Tej Prakash [VerfasserIn]
Bhoi, Sanjeev [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

Cardiac activity
Cardiac arrest
Emergency medicine
Journal Article
Point-of-care ultrasound
Return of spontaneous circulation
Survival

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 24.02.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.4103/2452-2473.366482

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM353251968