Communicating resuscitation. The importance of documentation in cardiac arrest.

Objectives: To primarily assess documentation during in-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest resuscitation and to secondarily observe cardiopulmonary resuscitation event and outcome variables.

Methods: A retrospective review of 360 code blue forms and medical records at King Fahad General Hospital, King Abdulaziz General Hospital (Almahjar), and Althghar Hospital in Jeddah was performed between 2015 to 2016.

Results: Survival to discharge rates and neurological outcomes were not documented at all.