Association between neuromuscular blocking agent use and outcomes among out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation and target temperature management : A secondary analysis of the SAVE-J II study

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Background: Neuromuscular blocking agents are used to control shivering in cardiac arrest patients treated with target temperature management. However, their effect on outcomes in patients treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation is unclear.

Methods: This study was a secondary analysis of the SAVE-J II study, a retrospective multicenter study of 2175 out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation in Japan. We classified patients into those who received neuromuscular blocking agents and those who did not and compared in-hospital mortality and incidence rates of favorable neurological outcome and in-hospital pneumonia between the groups using multivariable regression models and stabilized inverse probability weighting with propensity scores.

Results: Six hundred sixty patients from the SAVE-J II registry were analyzed. Neuromuscular blocking agents were used in 451 patients (68.3%). After adjusting for potential confounders, neuromuscular blocking agents use was not significantly associated with in-hospital mortality (aHR 0.88; 95% CI, 0.67-1.14), favorable neurological outcome (aOR 0.85; 95% CI, 0.60-1.11), or pneumonia (aOR 1.52; 95% CI, 0.85-2.71). The results for in-hospital mortality (aHR 0.89; 95% CI, 0.64-1.25), favorable neurological outcome (aOR 0.94; 95% CI, 0.59-1.48) and pneumonia (aOR 1.59; 95% CI, 0.74-3.41) were similar after weighting was performed.

Conclusions: Although data on the rationale for using neuromuscular blocking agents were unavailable, their use was not significantly associated with outcomes in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation and targeted temperature management. Neuromuscular blocking agents should be used based on individual clinical indications.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Resuscitation plus - 16(2023) vom: 15. Dez., Seite 100476

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Uchida, Masatoshi [VerfasserIn]
Kikuchi, Migaku [VerfasserIn]
Haruyama, Yasuo [VerfasserIn]
Takiguchi, Toru [VerfasserIn]
Hifumi, Toru [VerfasserIn]
Inoue, Akihiko [VerfasserIn]
Sakamoto, Tetsuya [VerfasserIn]
Kuroda, Yasuhiro [VerfasserIn]
SAVE-J II study group [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Cardiac arrest
Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation
Journal Article
Neuromuscular blocking agents
Targeted temperature management

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Date Revised 30.10.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.resplu.2023.100476

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM362757364