Open AccessIncreased Fibrinolysis as a Specific Marker of Poor Outcome After Cardiac Arrest
Author(s) -
Nina Buchtele,
Christian Schörgenhofer,
Alexander Spiel,
Bernd Jilma,
Michael Schwameis
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
critical care medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.002
H-Index - 271
eISSN - 1530-0293
pISSN - 0090-3493
DOI - 10.1097/ccm.0000000000003352
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , fibrinolysis , prospective cohort study , emergency department , cohort study , cardiology , psychiatry
Recent data suggest that early increased fibrinolysis may be associated with unfavorable prognosis in cardiac arrest. The current study aimed to assess whether there is an optimal fibrinolysis cutoff value as determined by thrombelastometry at hospital admission to predict poor outcome in a cohort of adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.