Nicholas Sunderland, Francine Cheese, Zoe Leadbetter, Nikhil V Joshi, Mark Mariathas, Ioannis Felekos, Sinjini Biswas, Geoff Dalton, Amardeep Dastidar, Shahid Aziz, Dan McKenzie, Raveen Kandan, Ali Khavandi, Hazim Rahbi, Christopher Bourdeaux, Kieron Rooney, Matt Govier, Matthew Thomas, Stephen Dorman, Julian Strange, Thomas W Johnson
BACKGROUND: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is associated with very poor clinical outcomes. An optimal pathway of care is yet to be defined, but prognostication is likely to assist in the challenging decision-making required for treatment of this high-risk patient cohort. The MIRACLE2 score provides a simple method of neuro-prognostication but as yet it has not been externally validated. The aim of this study was therefore to retrospectively apply the score to a cohort of OHCA patients to assess the predictive ability and accuracy in the identification of neurological outcome...
2023: Interventional Cardiology