Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Long-term function, quality of life and healthcare utilization among survivors of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Authors' conclusion
Survivors of pediatric OHCA with unfavorable outcome at discharge have more impaired function multiple years post-arrest. Survivors with favorable outcome may experience impairments and significant healthcare needs not fully captured by the PCPC at hospital discharge.
Study context
- Population
- Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) survivors <18 years old who received post-cardiac arrest care in the PICU at a single center, 2008–2018evaluable
- Participants
- 44 survivors
- Exposure
- Unfavorable vs favorable neurologic outcome at discharge
- Outcome
- Long-term outcomes: neurologic outcome (PCPC), activities of daily living (Pediatric Glasgow Outcomes Scale-Extended, FSS), HRQL (Pediatric Quality of Life Core and Family Impact Modules), healthcare utilization
- Follow-up
- More than one year after cardiac arrest
Methodological detailssingle-centre, telephone interview follow-up
- Single-centre
- Telephone interview follow-up
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
median 5.6 years [IQR 4.4, 8.9] post-arrest
- Unfavorable outcome at discharge: worse Functional Status Scale (FSS) Sensory and Motor Function scores
- Unfavorable outcome at discharge: higher rates of rehabilitation service utilization
- Parents of unfavorable-outcome survivors reported greater disruption to family functioning
- Healthcare utilization and educational support requirements common among all survivors
- Median age at arrest 5.3 [1.3,12.6] years; median CPR duration 5 [1.5, 7] minutes
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Long-term function, quality of life and healthcare utilization among survivors of pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 17 March 2023. doi:10.
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