Impact of urgent coronary angiography on mid-term clinical outcome of comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors presenting without ST-segment elevation

Abstract Background Timing of coronary angiography (CAG) is still controversial in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors who present without ST-segment elevation. Methods and results We analysed a prospective registry of 158 comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. For further an...

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Veröffentlicht in:Resuscitation 2015-09, Vol.94, p.61-66
Hauptverfasser: Kleissner, Martin, Sramko, Marek, Kohoutek, Jan, Kautzner, Josef, Kettner, Jiri
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract Background Timing of coronary angiography (CAG) is still controversial in the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors who present without ST-segment elevation. Methods and results We analysed a prospective registry of 158 comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. For further analysis, we included 99 patients without ST-segment elevation on the initial electrocardiogram. All patients underwent temperature management. Urgent CAG (
ISSN:0300-9572
1873-1570
DOI:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.06.022