Critical care medicine
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Critical care medicine · Jun 2014
Multicenter Study Observational StudyArterial Blood Gas Tensions After Resuscitation From Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: Associations With Long-Term Neurological Outcome.
In patients resuscitated after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, mean 24 hour PaCO2 predicted good outcome, specifically time spent with PaCO2 > 45 mmHg. No similar associations could be found between mean 24 h PaO2 and outcome.
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Critical care medicine · Jun 2014
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyA Scenario-Based, Randomized Trial of Patient Values and Functional Prognosis on Intensivist Intent to Discuss Withdrawing Life Support.
To evaluate the effect of 1) patient values as expressed by family members and 2) a requirement to document patients' functional prognosis on intensivists' intention to discuss withdrawal of life support in a hypothetical family meeting. ⋯ In this national, scenario-based, randomized trial, patient values had no effect on intensivists' decisions to discuss withdrawal of life support with family. However, requiring intensivists to record patients' estimated 3-month functional outcome substantially increased their intention to discuss withdrawal.