Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-25-2019
Abstract
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and sustained ventricular fibrillation/pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VF/pVT) or conversion to pulseless electrical activity/asystole (PEA/asystole) benefit more from extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR). Methods and Results: We analyzed data from the Study of Advanced Life Support for Ventricular Fibrillation with Extracorporeal Circulation in Japan, which was a prospective, multicenter, observational study with 22 institutions in the ECPR group and 17 institutions in the conventional CPR (CCPR) group. Patients were divided into 4 groups by cardiac rhythm and CPR group. The primary endpoint was favorable neurological outcome, defined as Cerebral Performance Category 1 or 2 at 6 months. A total of 407 patients had refractory OHCA with VF/pVT on initial electrocardiogram. The proportion of ECPR patients with favorable neurological outcome was significantly higher in the sustained VF/pVT group than in the conversion to PEA/asystole group (20%, 25/126 vs. 3%, 4/122, P<0.001). Stratifying by cardiac rhythm, on multivariable mixed logistic regression analysis an ECPR strategy significantly increased the proportion of patients with favorable neurological outcome at 6 months in the patients with sustained VF/pVT (OR, 7.35; 95% CI: 1.58-34.09), but these associations were not observed in patients with conversion to PEA/asystole.
CONCLUSIONS: OHCA patients with sustained VF/pVT may be the most promising ECPR candidates (UMIN000001403).
Recommended Citation
Nakashima, Takahiro; Noguchi, Teruo; Tahara, Yoshio; Nishimura, Kunihiro; Ogata, Soshiro; Yasuda, Satoshi; Onozuka, Daisuke; Morimura, Naoto; Nagao, Ken; Gaieski, David F.; Asai, Yasufumi; Yokota, Hiroyuki; Nara, Satoshi; Hase, Mamoru; Atsumi, Takahiro; and Sakamoto, Tetsuya, "Patients With Refractory Out-of-Cardiac Arrest and Sustained Ventricular Fibrillation as Candidates for Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation - Prospective Multi-Center Observational Study." (2019). Department of Emergency Medicine Faculty Papers. Paper 106.
https://jdc.jefferson.edu/emfp/106
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PubMed ID
30890669
Language
English
Comments
This article is the author’s final published version in Circulation Journal, Volume 83, Issue 5, April 2019, Pages 1011-1018.
The published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1253/circj.CJ-18-1257. Copyright © Nakashima et al.