Hyperoxia and Mortality After Cardiac Arrest September 20, 2010
Posted by admin in : Featured Articles, Research/Studies/Education , comments closedKilgannon JH, Jones AE, Shapiro NI, et al
JAMA. 2010;303:2165-2171Study Summary
Cardiac arrest is a devastating clinical situation, and the causes of out-of-hospital arrests often differ from those of in-hospital arrests.[1,2] Furthermore, survival after cardiac arrest is not improving.[3] Laboratory investigations suggest that exposure to hyperoxia after resuscitation from cardiac arrest can worsen anoxic brain injury.[4-6]