Feasibility of bispectral index monitoring to guide early post-resuscitation cardiac arrest triage.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2014
Institution/Department
Critical Care
Journal Title
Resuscitation
MeSH Headings
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Feasibility Studies, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Heart Arrest, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Monitoring, Physiologic, Prospective Studies, ROC Curve, Time Factors, Triage
Abstract
INTRODUCTION: Triage after resuscitation from cardiac arrest is hindered by reliable early estimation of brain injury. We evaluated the performance of a triage model based on early bispectral index (BIS) findings and cardiac risk classes.
METHODS: Retrospective evaluation of serial patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest, unable to follow commands, and undergoing hypothermia. Patients were assigned to a cardiac risk group: STEMI, VT/VF shock, VT/VF no shock, or PEA/asystole, and to a neurological dysfunction group, based on the BIS score following first neuromuscular blockade (BISi), and classified as BISi>20, BISi 10-20, or BISi
RESULTS: BISi in 171 patients was measured at 267(±177)min after resuscitation and 35(±1.7)°C. BISi82% neurological-cause and 91% overall mortality, BISi 10-20 35% neurological and 55% overall mortality, and BISi>20 12% neurological and 36% overall mortality. 33 patients presented with STEMI, 15 VT/VF-shock, 41 VT/VF-no shock, and 80 PEA/asystole. Among BISi>20 patients, 75% with STEMI underwent urgent cardiac catheterization (cath) and 94% had good outcome. When BISi>20 with VT/VF and shock, urgent cath was infrequent (33%), and 4 deaths (44%) were uniformly of circulatory etiology. Of 56 VT/VF patients without STEMI, 24 were BISi>20 but did not undergo urgent cath - 5(20.8%) of these had circulatory-etiology death. Circulatory-etiology death also occurred in 26.5% BIS>20 patients with PEA/asystole. When BISi
CONCLUSIONS: Neurocardiac triage based on very early processed EEG (BIS) is feasible, and may identify patients appropriate for individualized post-resuscitation care. This and other triage models warrant further study.
ISSN
1873-1570
First Page
1030
Last Page
1036
Recommended Citation
Seder, David B; Dziodzio, John; Smith, Kahsi A; Hickey, Paige; Bolduc, Brittany; Stone, Philip; May, Teresa; McCrum, Barbara; Fraser, Gilles L; and Riker, Richard R, "Feasibility of bispectral index monitoring to guide early post-resuscitation cardiac arrest triage." (2014). Maine Medical Center. 231.
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