Paediatric anaesthesia & critical care
Association of hypotension burden calculated from intermittently documented blood pressures and outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest
Main finding · Unfavorable outcome per increasing hypotension burden below 10th percentile-for-age (EHR-documented BPs)Result — go to the resultOdds ratio 4.64 95% CI [1.21, 17.6]Authors' conclusion
Hypotension burden calculated using EHR-documented BPs was associated with unfavorable outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest and closely approximated hypotension burden from continuous high-resolution BPs.
Study context
- Population
- Children after cardiac arrest, 24 h following ROSCanalysed
- Participants
- 139 children
- Exposure
- EHR-documented blood pressures (BPs) vs Continuous high-resolution BPs
- Outcome
- Unfavorable outcome (Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category Score ≥3 with change from pre-arrest), association with hypotension burden below 10th percentile for age
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Unfavorable outcome per increasing hypotension burden below 10th percentile-for-age (EHR-documented BPs)
Odds ratio
4.64
95% CI [1.21, 17.6]
P = 0.025
EHR-documented BPs
OR 4.64 (95% CI [1.21, 17.6]); P = 0.025
Per increasing hypotension burden below 10th percentile-for-age, as printed
- Unfavorable outcome
- 63%
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
Hypotension burden, EHR-documented vs continuous high-resolution BPs · similar
P = 0.165
Bias between measurement modalities (Bland-Altman analysis)
- No significant bias toward either measurement modality; mean difference
- 0.22 ± 0.95
- p = 0.096
Original publication
Association of hypotension burden calculated from intermittently documented blood pressures and outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 11 September 2026. doi:10.
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