Association of Pediatric Postcardiac Arrest Ventilation and Oxygenation with Survival Outcomes

Aisha H. Frazier, Alexis A. Topjian, Ron W. Reeder, Ryan W. Morgan, Ericka L. Fink, Deborah Franzon, Kathryn Graham, Monica L. Harding, Peter M. Mourani, Vinay M. Nadkarni, Heather A. Wolfe, Tageldin Ahmed, Michael J. Bell, Candice Burns, Joseph A. Carcillo, Todd C. Carpenter, J. Wesley Diddle, Myke Federman, Stuart H. Friess, Mark HallDavid A. Hehir, Christopher M. Horvat, Leanna L. Huard, Tensing Maa, Kathleen L. Meert, Maryam Y. Naim, Daniel Notterman, Murray M. Pollack, Carleen Schneiter, Matthew P. Sharron, Neeraj Srivastava, Shirley Viteri, David Wessel, Andrew R. Yates, Robert M. Sutton, Robert A. Berg

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Abstract

Rationale: Adult and pediatric studies provide conflicting data regarding whether post–cardiac arrest hypoxemia, hyperoxemia, hypercapnia, and/or hypocapnia are associated with worse outcomes. Objectives: We sought to determine whether postarrest hypoxemia or postarrest hyperoxemia is associated with lower rates of survival to hospital discharge, compared with postarrest normoxemia, and whether postarrest hypocapnia or hypercapnia is associated with lower rates of survival, compared with postarrest normocapnia. Methods: An embedded prospective observational study during a multicenter interventional cardiopulmonary resuscitation trial was conducted from 2016 to 2021. Patients <18 years old and with a corrected gestational age of >37 weeks who received chest compressions for cardiac arrest in one of the 18 intensive care units were included. Exposures during the first 24 hours postarrest were hypoxemia, hyperoxemia, or normoxemia—defined as lowest arterial oxygen tension/pressure (PaO2),60 mm Hg, highest PaO2 >200 mm Hg, or every PaO2 60–199 mm Hg, respectively—and hypocapnia, hypercapnia, or normocapnia, defined as lowest arterial carbon dioxide tension/pressure (PaCO2),30 mm Hg, highest PaCO2 >50 mm Hg, or every PaCO2 30–49 mm Hg, respectively. Associations of oxygenation and carbon dioxide group with survival to hospital discharge were assessed using Poisson regression with robust error estimates. Results: The hypoxemia group was less likely to survive to hospital discharge, compared with the normoxemia group (adjusted relative risk [aRR] = 0.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.58–0.87), whereas survival in the hyperoxemia group did not differ from that in the normoxemia group (aRR = 1.0; 95% CI = 0.87–1.15). The hypercapnia group was less likely to survive to hospital discharge, compared with the normocapnia group (aRR = 0.74; 95% CI = 0.64–0.84), whereas survival in the hypocapnia group did not differ from that in the normocapnia group (aRR = 0.91; 95% CI = 0.74–1.12). Conclusions: Postarrest hypoxemia and hypercapnia were each associated with lower rates of survival to hospital discharge.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)895-906
Number of pages12
JournalAnnals of the American Thoracic Society
Volume21
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 2024

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

Keywords

  • child
  • hypercapnia
  • hyperoxia
  • hypocapnia
  • Hypoxia

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