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Background: The present study was to compare the professional quality of life (ProQOL) and its association with the emotional well-being among the physicians and nurses in contact with COVID-19 patients in Iran and France. Materials and Methods: The study was performed on 903 nurses and physicians in contact with COVID-19 patients in Iran and France.he subjects completed their demographics online and then answered questions addressing their job stress and emotion associated with their contact with COVID-19 patients and ProQOL. Finally, the collected data were analyzed using the SPSS software (ver. 25). Results: According to the results of the present study, the degree of contact with COVID-19 patients had a significant role in compassion satisfaction, burnout, and compassion fatigue, with the coefficient effects of 0.459, 0.688, and 0.433, respectively (P < 0.05). The emotional well-being had a significant role in increasing compassion satisfaction (B = 0.505, P < 0.05). Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, factors such as contact with a COVID-19 patient, emotional well-being, gender, and marital status had a significant effect on dimensions of ProQOL in both Iran and France. Considering that the entire focus of the physicians and nurses is on the health of COVID-19 patients and they have no concentration on improving their emotional state, it seems that supporting them in terms of psychological self-care and considering its indirect impact on the quality of professional performance are of particular significance.

Objective: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an independent risk factor in critically ill patients. This study aimed to evaluate the prevalence of AKI in resuscitated cardiac arrest (CA) patients, its potential risk factors, and outcomes of AKI in cardiac arrest survivors. Methods: A hundred and forty-nine cases of post-CA patients that survived for at least 24 hours, admitted to three hospitals between 2016 and 2020, were studied. AKI was defined by the RIFLE (Risk, Injury, Failure, Loss, and End-stage) criteria. Baseline demographic data, resuscitation variables, the prevalence of AKI, in-hospital and six-month mortality were collected. Logistic regression evaluated the factors associated with AKI occurrence and mortality. Results: AKI occurred in 59 (39.6%) of the patients. Of these, 9 patients (15.3%) required renal replacement therapy (RRT) during their hospital stay. There were 47 (52.2%) in-hospital deaths in patients without AKI and 41 (69.5%) in patients with AKI (P=0.036). Post-CA AKI was significantly associated with six-month mortality (OR=1.65; 95% CI: 1.39,2.88; P=0.029). Older age, the higher cumulative dosage of epinephrine during cardiopulmonary resuscitation, post-CA shock, in-hospital CA, initial pulseless electrical activity (PEA) or asystole rhythm, longer duration of cardiac arrest, as well as higher admission creatinine and lactate levels were independently associated with AKI; in contrast, higher admission base excess level was negatively associated with AKI. Conclusion: AKI occurred in nearly 40% of CA patients. AKI was associated with a higher in-hospital and six-month mortality rates.