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AIM OF STUDY: To investigate whether regional cerebral oxygen saturation (rSO2) differs in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors undergoing targeted temperature management (TTM) 36 °C versus 33 °C. METHODS: A randomized clinical trial was conducted at intensive care units in two referral hospitals. Fifty-seven comatose OHCA survivors were randomized into either a 36 °C or 33 °C group. Patients were cooled and maintained at an oesophageal temperature of either 36 °C or 33 °C for 24 hours, rewarmed at a rate of 0.25 °C/hour, and maintained at <37.5 °C until 72 hours. During 72 hours of TTM, rSO2 was continuously monitored on the left forehead using near-infrared spectroscopy (INVOSTM 5100C). The rSO2 level at 72 hours was compared between the two groups. Next, serial rSO2 levels for 72 hours were compared using mixed effects regression. The association between rSO2 levels and 6-month neurological outcomes was also evaluated. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the rSO2 level at 72 hours between the 36 °C and 33 °C groups (p = 0.372). Furthermore, serial rSO2 levels for 72 hours of TTM were not different between the two groups (p = 0.733). However, low rSO2 levels, particularly at 24 hours of TTM, were significantly associated with poor 6-month neurological outcomes (odds ratio = 0.899, 95% confidence interval: 0.831-0.974). The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve of the rSO2 level at 24 hours for poor neurological outcomes was 0.800. CONCLUSIONS: Regardless of target temperatures, low rSO2 levels during TTM were significantly associated with poor 6-month neurological outcomes in OHCA survivors.
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Hypothermia, Induced , Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest , Humans , Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest/therapy , Oxygen , Spectroscopy, Near-Infrared , SurvivorsABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE: We conducted this study to investigate whether ESI combined with qSOFA score (ESI+qSOFA) predicts hospital outcome better than ESI alone in the emergency department (ED). METHODS: This was a retrospective study for patients aged over 15years who visited an ED of a tertiary referral hospital from January 1st, 2015 to December 31st, 2015. We calculated and compared predictive performances of ESI alone and ESI+qSOFA for prespecified outcomes. The primary outcome was hospital mortality, and the secondary outcome was composite outcome of in-hospital mortality and ICU admission. We calculated in-hospital mortality rates by positive qSOFA in each subgroup divided according to ESI levels (1, 2, 3, 4+5). RESULTS: 43,748 patients were enrolled. The area under receiver-operating characteristics curves were higher in ESI+qSOFA than in ESI alone for both mortality and composite outcome (0.786 vs. 0.777, P<.001 for mortality; 0.778 vs. 0.774, P<.001 for composite outcome). In each subgroup divided by ESI levels, patients with positive qSOFA had significantly higher in-hospital mortality rate compared to those with negative qSOFA (20.4% vs. 14.7%, P=.117 in ESI level 1 subgroup; 11.3% vs. 2.7%, P=.001 in ESI level 2 subgroup; 2.3% vs. 0.4%, P<.001 in ESI level 3 subgroup; 0.0% vs. 0.0% in ESI level 4 or 5 subgroup). CONCLUSION: The prognostic performance of ESI+qSOFA for in-hospital mortality was significantly higher than that of ESI alone. Within each subgroup, patients with positive qSOFA had higher in-hospital mortality compared to those with negative qSOFA.
