Acute cardiac care & resuscitation
Impact of coma duration on functional outcomes at discharge and long-term survival after cardiac arrest
Authors' conclusion
Shorter coma duration was associated with better functional outcome at discharge, but not with long-term survival.
Study context
- Population
- Post-cardiac-arrest patients comatose on presentation who awakened during hospitalisation742 survived to discharge
- Participants
- 979 participants
- Exposure
- Short vs long coma duration
- Outcome
- Functional outcome (mRS) at hospital discharge and long-term survival
- Follow-up
- Hospital discharge; long-term
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
- Median coma duration, days
- 2 [IQR 1-4]
- Shorter coma duration associated with higher proportion with discharge modified Rankin Scale (mRS) ≤ 3
- p < 0.001
- No difference in long-term survival between short and long coma durations (742 discharge survivors, 3,136 person-years)
- p = 0.86
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Original publication
Impact of coma duration on functional outcomes at discharge and long-term survival after cardiac arrest. Resuscitation. Published 30 November 2024. doi:10.
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