Cardiac arrest & resuscitation
Resuscitation outcomes in patients with cancer: experience in a large urban cancer centre
Authors' conclusion
Hospitalized patients with cancer requiring CPR have poor hospital and long-term outcomes.
Study context
- Population
- Hospitalised patients with cancer who had a "code blue" activated at a large Canadian cancer centre, January 2007 to December 2018
- Participants
- 225 patients
- Exposure
- Patients meeting "poor prognosis" criteria vs patients not meeting them
- Poor prognosisn = 114
- Outcome
- ICU mortality
Methodological detailssingle-centre
- Single-centre
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
P < 0.001
- Overall intensive care unit (ICU) mortality among 164 admitted to ICU
- 49% (81/164)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
In-hospital mortality
P < 0.001
Goals-of-care discussions prior to the code blue
P < 0.001
Alive at one year
Overall survival of the code blue
- Survived the code blue
- 173/225 (77%)
- Survived to hospital discharge
- 31%
- Alive at one year
- 16% (n = 27)
Patients requiring chest compressions (subgroup)
- Required chest compressions
- 120 out of 225 (53%)
- ROSC
- 61% (73/120)
- Survived to hospital discharge
- 12% (14/120)
Original publication
Resuscitation outcomes in patients with cancer: experience in a large urban cancer centre. Can J Anaesth. Published 21 June 2023. doi:10.
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