Guillaume Geri, Olivier Passouant, Florence Dumas, Wulfran Bougouin, Benoit Champigneulle, Michel Arnaout, Jonathan Chelly, Jean-Daniel Chiche, Olivier Varenne, Lucie Guillemet, Frederic Pène, Victor Waldmann, Jean-Paul Mira, Eloi Marijon, Alain Cariou
BACKGROUND: Respective proportions of final etiologies are disparate in cohorts of cardiac arrest patients, depending on examined population and diagnostic algorithms. In particular, prevalence and characteristics of sudden unexplained death syndrome (SUDS) are debated. We aimed at describing etiologies in a large cohort of aborted out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients, in order to assess prevalence and outcome of SUDS. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We analyzed data from our prospective registry of successfully resuscitated OHCA patients admitted to a cardiac arrest centre between January 2002 and December 2014...
August 2017: Resuscitation