ArticleCritical care (London, England)2023
Identification of post-cardiac arrest blood pressure thresholds associated with outcomes in children: an ICU-Resuscitation study.
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Improving Outcomes After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- 2025 Korean Guidelines for Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: Part 8. Pediatric advanced life support.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2026Guideline
- Association of hypotension burden calculated from intermittently documented blood pressures and outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest.Resuscitation · 2026Article
- Management of arterial hypotension in critically Ill children: a narrative review and practical approach.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Review
- Highest early blood pressure within 24 hours and mortality after in-hospital cardiac arrest in the oldest ICU patients: A binational cohort study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The Latest in Resuscitation Research: Highlights From the 2024 American Heart Association's Resuscitation Science Symposium.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Association Between Deviations From Cerebral Autoregulation-Derived Optimal Blood Pressure and Outcome After Pediatric Cardiac Arrest.Neurology · 2025Article
- Current practice in pediatric post-cardiac arrest care: a national survey among Italian pediatric intensivists.Resuscitation plus · 2025Article
- The association between early hypotension and neurologic outcome after pediatric cardiac ECPR in children with cardiac disease.Resuscitation plus · 2024Article
- The association between initial post-resuscitation diastolic blood pressure and survival after pediatric cardiac arrest: a retrospective study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionThough early hypotension after pediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA) is associated with inferior outcomes, ideal post-arrest blood pressure (BP) targets have not been established. We aimed to leverage prospectively collected BP data to explore the association of post-arrest BP thresholds with outcomes. We hypothesized that post-arrest systolic and diastolic BP thresholds would be higher than the currently recommended post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation BP targets and would be associated with higher rates of survival to hospital discharge.
methodsWe performed a secondary analysis of prospectively collected BP data from the first 24 h following return of circulation from index IHCA events enrolled in the ICU-RESUScitation trial (NCT02837497). The lowest documented systolic BP (SBP) and diastolic BP (DBP) were percentile-adjusted for age, height and sex. Receiver operator characteristic curves and cubic spline analyses controlling for illness category and presence of pre-arrest hypotension were generated exploring the association of lowest post-arrest SBP and DBP with survival to hospital discharge and survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome (Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category of 1-3 or no change from baseline). Optimal cutoffs for post-arrest BP thresholds were based on analysis of receiver operator characteristic curves and spline curves. Logistic regression models accounting for illness category and pre-arrest hypotension examined the associations of these thresholds with outcomes.
resultsAmong 693 index events with 0-6 h post-arrest BP data, identified thresholds were: SBP > 10th percentile and DBP > 50th percentile for age, sex and height. Fifty-one percent (n = 352) of subjects had lowest SBP above threshold and 50% (n = 346) had lowest DBP above threshold. SBP and DBP above thresholds were each associated with survival to hospital discharge (SBP: aRR 1.21 [95% CI 1.10, 1.33]; DBP: aRR 1.23 [1.12, 1.34]) and survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome (SBP: aRR 1.22 [1.10, 1.35]; DBP: aRR 1.27 [1.15, 1.40]) (all p < 0.001).
conclusionsFollowing pediatric IHCA, subjects had higher rates of survival to hospital discharge and survival to hospital discharge with favorable neurologic outcome when BP targets above a threshold of SBP > 10th percentile for age and DBP > 50th percentile for age during the first 6 h post-arrest.
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