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Table 4 Percentage of patients that presented with ONLY pulseless electrical activity as presenting rhythm that did or did not meet mortality outcomes stratified upon whether cardiac motion was visualized on point-of-care ultrasound. Cumulative statistics also included

From: Prognostic value of point-of-care ultrasound during cardiac arrest: a systematic review

Study

Outcome

N

+ Outcome / + Cardiac Motion

+ Outcome / - Cardiac Motion

- Outcome / - Cardiac Motion

- Outcome / + Cardiac Motion

Kim et al. [13]

ROSC

8

85% (6/7)

100% (1/1)

0% (0/1)

14.3% (1/7)

Chardoli et al. [9]

ROSC

50

43% (17/39)

0% (0/11)

100% (11/11)

57% (22/39)

Tomruk et al. [10]

ROSC

64

68.2% (15/22)

47.6% (20/42)

52.4% (22/42)

31.8% (7/22)

Schuster et al. [15]

ROSC

28

25% (3/12)

0% (0/16)

100% (16/16)

75% (9/12)

Salen et al. [12]

ROSC

34

72% (8/11)

0% (0/23)

100% (23/23)

27% (3/11)

Blaivas et al. [14]

Hospital Admission

38

67% (12/18)

0% (0/20)

100% (20/20)

33% (6/18)

Salen et al. [6]

Hospital Admission

55

25.8% (8/31)

4.1% (1/24)

95.8% (23/24)

74.% (23/31)

Aichinger et al. [11]

Hospital Admission

11

25% (1/4)

0% (0/7)

100% (7/7)

75% (3/4)

Breitkreutz et al. [16]

Hospital Admission

51

55% (21/38)

8% (1/13)

92% (12/13)

45% (17/38)

Cebicci et al. [8]

24 h survival

75

95.4% (42/44)

9.7% (3/31)

90.3% (28/31)

4.5% (2/44)

TOTAL

 

414

58.8% (133/226)

13.8% (26/188)

86.2% (162/188)

41.2% (93/226)