Aim: We assessed the ability of the Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and the Cardiac Arrest Hospital Prognosis (CAHP) scores to predict neurological outcome following in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA).
Methods: Retrospective review of a seven-year French multicentric database including ten intensive care units. Primary endpoint was the outcome at hospital discharge using the Cerebral Performance Category score (CPC) in all IHCA patients.
Introduction: Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurement could detect increased intracranial pressure, and might predict outcome in post-cardiac arrest (CA) patients. We assessed the ability of bedside ONSD ultrasonographic measurement performed within day 1 after CA occurrence to predict in-hospital survival in patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH).
Methods: In two French ICUs, a prospective study included all consecutive patients with CA without traumatic or neurological etiology, successfully resuscitated and TH-treated.