Early neurologically-focused follow-up after cardiac arrest improves quality of life at one year: A randomised controlled trial

Abstract

Current controlled trials, ISRCTN74835019.

A text message alert system for trained volunteers improves out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival

“…Exact information on neurological outcome was not available due to practical limitations. However 92% of the surviving patients were discharged home and assessment of scores on the Modified Rankin Scale in one hospital provided good functional outcomes, in agreement with results from previous research in the same region 13,14 and elsewhere in the Netherlands. 18,19 Five foreign patients were excluded, because they were, after sufficient recovery within the local hospital in Limburg, transferred to a hospital outside the Netherlands.…”

“…Here it was found that almost 80% of the patients experience high quality of life 13 and that 70% of employed patients returned to work within 12 months after discharge. 14 …”

Long-term survival benefit from treatment at a specialty center after cardiac arrest

“…For example, we note that CPC at hospital discharge did not differ substantially across centers, raising the possibility that the collaboration we have fostered with colleagues in rehabilitation medicine and the post-acute care they provide is largely responsible for the observed treatment effect. Given that both seemingly minor variations in the acute phase of critical illness,[33, 34] as well as post-acute rehabilitation,[35] have proven to result in a durable effect on neurocognitive outcomes, we hypothesis that no single intervention fully explains our findings. Nevertheless, future observational analyses and interventional trials are urgently needed test the effect of specific elements of care on long-term patient-centered outcomes to inform an evidence-based approach to post-arrest care.…”

Impaired Mental Health‐Related Quality of Life in Patients with Idiopathic Ventricular Fibrillation

“…Insight into patients' HRQoL can provide new treatment targets, for example, in patients with anxiety or depression. Moreover, timely identification of cognitive and emotional problems can improve patient outcome and HRQoL . The aim of this study was to investigate differences in HRQoL between a group who were diagnosed with a specific disease and iVF patients.…”