Cardiac arrest & resuscitation

Innate Immune Response After Cardiac Arrest (INNATUS): A Study Protocol for an Observational Single‐Center Pilot Study

Acta Anaesthesiol ScandPublished Study protocol for a prospective observational single-centre pilot study

Study context

Population
Adult cardiac arrest (CA) patients admitted to the ICU after successful resuscitation
Participants
40 vs 40
Planned comparison
CA patients vs elective coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) controls
  • CAn = 40
  • CABGn = 40reference
Primary endpoint
Severity of organ failure (modified SOFA score) during the first 96 h after ROSC and neurological outcome (Modified Rankin Scale) at 6 months
Methodological detailsEnrollment January 2022 to April 2025; last follow-up due October 2025, Blood samples at ICU admission, 4, 8, 12 and 24 h after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and mornings of Days 1-4; proteomic, transcriptomic and flow cytometric analyses
  • Enrollment January 2022 to April 2025; last follow-up due October 2025
  • Blood samples at ICU admission, 4, 8, 12 and 24 h after ROSC and mornings of Days 1-4; proteomic, transcriptomic and flow cytometric analyses

No results yet. This paper sets out the design of a trial; its results are to come.

Original publication

Innate Immune Response After Cardiac Arrest (INNATUS): A Study Protocol for an Observational Single‐Center Pilot Study. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand. Published 8 July 2025. doi:10.1111/aas.70087

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