Elevated prehospital point-of-care glucose is associated with worse neurologic outcome after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

• Published in: Resuscitation plus Vol. 9; p. 100204
• Main Authors: Abramson, Tiffany M., Bosson, Nichole, Whitfield, Denise, Gausche-Hill, Marianne, Niemann, James T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.03.2022; Elsevier
• Subjects: Emergency medical services; Glucose; Heart arrest; Hyperglycemia; Neurologic outcome; Prehospital; Short Paper; POC; EMS; Glucose; ROSC; TTM; Prehospital; SHD; Neurologic outcome; LAC; Heart arrest; Hyperglycemia; OHCA; CPC; PCI; Emergency medical services; TTM, Targeted temperature management; CPC, Cerebral performance category; POC, Point-of-care; LAC, Los Angeles County; OHCA, Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; PCI, Percutaneous coronary intervention; ROSC, Return of spontaneous circulation; SHD, Survival to hospital discharge (SHD); EMS, Emergency medical services

Hyperglycemia is associated with poor outcomes in critically-ill patients. This has implications for prognostication of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and for post-resuscitation care. We assessed the association of hyperglycemia, on field point-of-care (POC) testing, with surviv...