Dealing with a life changing event: The influence of spirituality and coping style on quality of life after survival of a cardiac arrest or myocardial infarction.

Background: Survivors of a cardiac arrest often have cognitive and emotional problems. As a cardiac arrest is also an obvious life-threatening event, other psychological sequelae associated with surviving such as spirituality may also affect quality of life.

Objectives: To determine the relationship between spirituality, coping and quality of life in cardiac patients both with and without a cardiac arrest.

Determinants of quality of life in survivors of cardiac arrest.

Objective: To study factors related to quality of life after a hypoxic period due to cardiac arrest.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Subjects: Eighty-eight survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, admitted to a Dutch academic hospital between 2001 and 2006.

Life after survival: long-term daily functioning and quality of life after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Background: Information about long-term consequences of cardiac arrest is sparse. Because the survival rate is expected to increase, better knowledge of long-term functioning and quality of survival is essential.

Objectives: To determine the level of functioning of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors 1-6 years later, and to evaluate the predictive value of medical variables on long-term functioning.