Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Blood pressure targets and management during post-cardiac arrest care
Authors' conclusion
Noteworthy is that all studies to date have focused mainly on patients with a cardiac cause of the arrest with the majority of patients being resuscitated from a shockable initial rhythm.
Study context
- Population
- Patients treated in the ICU after cardiac arrest4 studies
- Comparison
- Higher vs lower mean arterial pressure (MAP) target after cardiac arrest
- Outcome
- Treatment effect of higher vs lower MAP target (Bayesian meta-analysis of 4 studies)
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Posterior probability that a future study would find treatment effects >5% difference between groups
less than 50%
Achieved mean difference of MAP between groups
10-15 mmHg
Further findings
Hypotension requiring vasopressors (epidemiological data)
- Occurs in almost 50% of patients
Original publication
Blood pressure targets and management during post-cardiac arrest care. Resuscitation. Published 26 June 2023. doi:10.
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