Dosage and clinical outcomes of medical emergency team and conventional referral mediated unplanned intensive care admissions.

: Unplanned intensive care unit (ICU) admission occurs via activation of medical emergency team (MET) and conventional ICU referral (CIR), i.e., ICU consultation.

Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy in intensive care unit patients following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: An Australian metropolitan ICU experience.

Background: Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy is a common phenomenon following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The clinical practices surrounding withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy remain unclear and warrant further inspection due to their reported impact on post-cardiac arrest mortality.

Objectives: To determine factors associated with withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy (WLST) in intensive care unit (ICU) patients following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).

In-hospital mode of death after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

Introduction: Factors associated with in-hospital mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), such as mode of death and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (WLST), are not well established. This study aimed to compare clinical characteristics, timing of WLST and death, and precipitating aetiology between modes of death for OHCAs treated at hospital within a local health network.

Methods: Retrospective cohort study of adult non-traumatic OHCAs included in a hospital based OHCA registry between 2011 and 2016 and deceased at hospital discharge, excluding cases retrieved to external hospitals.

Overcoming challenges of establishing a hospital-based out-of-hospital cardiac arrest registry: accuracy of case identification using administrative data and clinical registries.

Introduction: Comprehensive identification of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cases for inclusion in registries remains challenging due to the inherent diversity of OHCA aetiology, presentation, and management. The Northern Adelaide Local Health Network (NALHN) OHCA registry identifies OHCAs presenting to NALHN hospitals using existing data sources to monitor in-hospital treatment and survival. This study aimed to investigate the accuracy of hospital-based data sources for identifying OHCA cases treated at hospital.

Early clinical prediction of neurological outcome following out of hospital cardiac arrest managed with therapeutic hypothermia.

Background: Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) may improve neurological outcome in comatose patients following out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). The reliability of clinical prediction of neurological outcome following TH remains unclear. In particular, there is very limited data on survival and predictors of neurological outcome following TH for OHCA from resource-constrained settings in general and South Asia in specific.