Time to Epinephrine and Survival After Pediatric In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest.

Importance: Delay in administration of the first epinephrine dose is associated with decreased survival among adults after in-hospital, nonshockable cardiac arrest. Whether this association is true in the pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest population remains unknown.

Objective: To determine whether time to first epinephrine dose is associated with outcomes in pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest.

The administration of dextrose during in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with increased mortality and neurologic morbidity.

Introduction: Dextrose may be used during cardiac arrest resuscitation to prevent or reverse hypoglycemia. However, the incidence of dextrose administration during cardiac arrest and the association of dextrose administration with survival and other outcomes are unknown.

Methods: We used the Get With The Guidelines®-Resuscitation national registry to identify adult patients with an in-hospital cardiac arrest between the years 2000 and 2010.

The association between a quantitative computed tomography (CT) measurement of cerebral edema and outcomes in post-cardiac arrest-a validation study.

Aim: Previous studies have examined the association between quantitative head computed tomography (CT) measures of cerebral edema and patient outcomes reporting that a calculated gray matter to white matter attenuation ratio (GWR) of <1.2 indicates a near 100% non-survivable injury post-cardiac arrest. The objective of the current study was to validate whether a GWR <1.