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Soon Bin Kwon1, Murad Megjhani1, Daniel Nametz1
1Program for Hospital and Intensive Care Informatics, Department of Neurology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, USA.
Background:
Despite significant progress in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and post-cardiac arrest care, favorable outcome in out-of hospital sudden cardiac arrest patients remains low. One of the main reasons for mortality in these patients is withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. There is a need for precise and equitable prognostication tools to support families in avoiding premature or inappropriate WLST. Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) have been noted for their association with outcome, and are positioned to be a useful modality for prognostication.
Objectives:
The aim of this scoping review is to rigorously explore which electrocardiography features have been shown to predict functional outcome in post-cardiac arrest patients.
Methods:
The search was performed in Pubmed, EMBASE, and SCOPUS for studies published from January 1, 2011, to September 29, 2022, including papers in English or Korean.
Results:
Seven studies were included with a total of 1359 patients. Four studies evaluated HR, one study evaluated RR inverval, and two studies evaluated HRV. All studies were retrospective, with 3 multi-center and 4 single-center studies. All seven studies were inclusive of patients who underwent targeted temperature management (TTM) after cardiac arrest, and two studies included patients without TTM. Five studies used cerebral performance category to assess functional outcome, two studies used Glasgow outcome score, and one study used modified Rankin scale. Three studies measured outcome at hospital discharge, one study measured outcome at 14 days after return of spontaneous circulation, two studies measured outcome after 3 months, and one after 1 year. In all studies that evaluated HR, lower HR was associated with favorable functional outcome. Two studies found that higher complexity of HRV was associated with favorable functional outcome.
Conclusion:
HR and HRV showed clear associations with functional outcome in patients after CA, but cinilcial utility for prognostication is uncertain.
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