Potential kidney donors among patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and a termination of resuscitation rule.

Importance: Uncontrolled donation after circulatory determination of death (uDCD) has been developed and can serve as a source of kidneys for transplantation, especially when considering patients that meet extended criteria donation (ECD).

Objective: This study assessed the theorical size and characteristics of the potential pool of kidney transplants from uDCD with standard criteria donation (SCD) and ECD among patients who meet Termination of Resuscitation (TOR) criteria following Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA).

Methods And Participants: This study focused on adult patients experiencing unexpected OHCA, who were prospectively enrolled in the Parisian registry from May 16th, 2011, to December 31st, 2020.

Trends in survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest with a shockable rhythm and its association with bystander resuscitation: a retrospective study.

Objective: Over 300 000 cases of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCAs) occur each year in the USA and Europe. Despite decades of investment and research, survival remains disappointingly low. We report the trends in survival after a ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia OHCA, over a 13-year period, in a French urban region, and describe the simultaneous evolution of the rescue system.

Family presence during resuscitation.

Background: Patients and their relatives often expect to be actively involved in decisions of treatment. Even during resuscitation and acute medical care, patients may want to have their relatives nearby, and relatives may want to be present if offered the possibility. The principle of family presence during resuscitation (FPDR) is a triangular relationship where the intervention of family presence affects the healthcare professionals, the relatives present, and the care of the patient involved.

Ultrasensitive Troponin I and Incident Cardiovascular Disease.

Background: To examine the association of ultrasensitive cTnI (cardiac troponin I) with incident cardiovascular disease events (CVDs) in the primary prevention setting.

Methods: cTnI was analyzed in the baseline plasma (2008-2012) of CVD-free volunteers from the Paris Prospective Study III using a novel ultrasensitive immunoassay (Simoa Troponin-I 2.0 Kit, Quanterix, Lexington) with a limit of detection of 0.

Association between basic life support and survival in sports-related sudden cardiac arrest: a meta-analysis.

Aims: To evaluate the association of basic life support with survival after sports-related sudden cardiac arrest (SR-SCA).

Methods And Results: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, a search of several databases from each database inception to 31 July 2021 without language restrictions was conducted. Studies were considered eligible if they evaluated one of three scenarios in patients with SR-SCA: (i) bystander presence, (ii) bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), or (iii) bystander automated external defibrillator (AED) use and provided information on survival.