Tanush Gupta, Dhaval Kolte, Sahil Khera, Wilbert S Aronow, Chandrasekar Palaniswamy, Marjan Mujib, Diwakar Jain, Sachin Sule, Ali Ahmed, Sei Iwai, Paul Eugenio, Seth Lessner, William H Frishman, Julio A Panza, Gregg C Fonarow
In-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is common and is associated with poor prognosis. Data on the effect of smoking on outcomes after IHCA are limited. We analyzed the Nationwide Inpatient Sample databases from 2003 to 2011 for all patients aged≥18 years who underwent cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for IHCA to examine the differences in survival to hospital discharge and neurologic status between smokers and nonsmokers. Of the 838,464 patients with CPR for IHCA, 116,569 patients (13.9%) were smokers. Smokers were more likely to be younger, Caucasian, and male...
July 15, 2014: American Journal of Cardiology