The futility of resuscitating an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cannot be summarized by three simple criteria

In this study, the authors conducted a retrospective analysis of the Cardiac Arrest Registry to Enhance Survival (CARES) database and included 1,750 subjects, 223 of whom met all three criteria. In order to a ssess the external validity of these criteria, we applied them on the French National Cardiac Arrest Registry which counted 85,519 OHCAs in March 2018.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research