Table 6 Percentage of patients that presented with ONLY ventricular fibrillation or pulseless ventricular tachycardia as presenting rhythm that did or did not meet positive 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 | Presenting Rhythm | Outcome | N | + Outcome / + Cardiac Motion | + Outcome / - Cardiac Motion | - Outcome / - Cardiac Motion | - Outcome / + Cardiac Motion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kim et al. [13] | VT and VF | ROSC | 1 | 100% (1/1) | 0% (0/0) | 0% (0/0) | 0% (0/0) |
Tomruk et al. [10] | VT and VF | ROSC | 8 | 0% (0/0) | 50% (4/8) | 50% (4/8) | 0% (0/0) |
Blaivas et al. [14] | VF | Hospital Admission | 66 | 53% (8/15) | 0% (0/51) | 100% (51/51) | 47% (7/15) |
Salen et al. [6] | VF | Hospital Admission | 6 | 25% (1/4) | 0% (0/2) | 100% (2/2) | 75% (3/4) |
– | VT | Hospital Admission | 5 | 67% (2/3) | 0% (0/2) | 100% (2/2) | 33% (1/3) |
Aichinger et al. [11] | VT and VF | Hospital Admission | 9 | 66% (2/3) | 0% (0/6) | 100% (6/6) | 33.3% (1/3) |
Cebicci et al. [8] | VT and VF | 24 h survival | 45 | 85.7% (30/35) | 20% (2/10) | 80% (8/10) | 14.3% (5/35) |
TOTAL | 140 | 72.1% (44/61) | 7.6% (6/79) | 92.4% (73/79) | 27.9% (17/61) |