Post cardiac arrest care
Management
- Maintain perfusion (cerebral)
- Treat hypotension
- Ignore hypertension
- Maintain normal PaCO2 (~40)
- Target normoxia
- PaO2 80-120
- Therapeutic Hypothermia
- PCI
- Aggressively treat hyperglycemia
- No IV fluids with glucose
- RISS
- Aggressive seizure treatment
- Minimize Irritation
- Sedatives +/- paralytics
- Supine positioning
Prognostication[4]
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has about a 10% survival to discharge rate
- In-hospital cardiac arrest has just over a 20% survival to discharge rate
- About half will have no to mild disability, and the other half will have moderate to severe disability
- Lack of pupillary reflexes upon ROSC after OHCA are not reliable in prognosticating return of neurologic function
- Recommended to wait minimum of 72 hours post-ROSC for prognostication
See Also
References
- ↑ Kern, KB. Optimal Treatment of Patients Surviving Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest. J Am Coll Cardiol Intv. 2012; 5(6):597-605. doi:10.1016/j.jcin.2012.01.017
- ↑ “Coronary Angiography after Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation.” New England Journal of Medicine, vol. 381, no. 2, Nov. 2019, pp. 188–190., doi:10.1056/nejmc1906523.
- ↑ Callaway CW, Donnino MW, Fink EL, et al. Part 8: post-cardiac arrest care: 2015 American Heart Association guidelines update for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiovascular care. Circulation. 2015;132(18 Suppl 2):S465–82.
- ↑ Breu AC. Clinician-Patient Discussions of Successful CPR—The Vegetable Clause. JAMA Intern Med. 2018;178(10):1299–1300. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.4066