Ryan W Morgan, Ron W Reeder, Dieter Bender, Kellimarie K Cooper, Stuart H Friess, Kathryn Graham, Kathleen L Meert, Peter M Mourani, Robert Murray, Vinay M Nadkarni, C Nataraj, Chella A Palmer, Neeraj Srivastava, Bradley Tilford, Heather A Wolfe, Andrew R Yates, Robert A Berg, Robert M Sutton
Background: Supported by laboratory and clinical investigations of adult cardiopulmonary arrest, resuscitation guidelines recommend monitoring end-tidal carbon dioxide (ETCO2) as an indicator of CPR quality but note that "specific values to guide therapy have not been established in children." Methods: This prospective observational cohort study was an NHLBI-funded ancillary study of children in the ICU-RESUS citation trial (NCT02837497). Hospitalized children (≤18 years of age and ≥37 weeks post-gestational age) who received chest compressions of any duration for cardiopulmonary arrest, had an endotracheal or tracheostomy tube at the start of CPR, and had evaluable intra-arrest ETCO2 data were included...
November 6, 2023: Circulation