Takuya Taira, Akihiko Inoue, Hiroshi Okamoto, Kunihiko Maekawa, Toru Hifumi, Tetsuya Sakamoto, Yasuhiro Kuroda, Masafumi Suga, Takeshi Nishimura, Shinichi Ijuin, Satoshi Ishihara
OBJECTIVE: The association between fluid balance and outcomes in patients who underwent out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and received extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation (ECPR) remains unknown. We aimed to examine the above relationship during the first 24 h following intensive care unit (ICU) admission. METHODS: We performed a secondary analysis of the SAVE-J II study, a retrospective multicenter study involving OHCA patients aged ≥ 18 years treated with ECPR between 2013 and 2018 and who received fluid therapy following ICU admission...
April 18, 2024: Clinical Research in Cardiology: Official Journal of the German Cardiac Society