Pulseless electrical activity in in-hospital cardiac arrest ⠍ a crossroad for decisions

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: A. Norvik from the Study setting and population All episodes were recorded by emergency response personnel in a quality assurance initiative, with no inclusion criteria other than age > , yearsA total of , novel episodes of IHCA with available defibrillator files from three different hospitals were reviewed. Episodes with disturbed or missing ECG signal during resuscitation (, and , respectively), episodes lacking both transthoracic impedance signal and compression depth (, episodes) and duplicated episodes (, episode) were excluded. A total of , episodes were further analyzed: St. Olavs hospital, Norway, (n=, between , and, ), the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, USA, (n=, between . . .
  

   

  

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