Study of ICU Doctors and Nurses Judgments on CPR Appropriateness and Patient Outcomes After Cardiac Arrest

What this Trial Is About

Researchers are studying how well doctors and nurses in Intensive Care Units ICUs can predict neurological outcomes and quality of life six months after patients experience cardiac arrest outside the hospital. This study compares ICU clinicians early assessments within 24 hours after admission to the results of a detailed neuroprognostication process from the STEPCARE study, which aims to find the best post-resuscitation care strategies to improve survival and neurological outcomes. The study involves ICU doctors and nurses treating patients enrolled in the STEPCARE study. Within the first 24 hours after ICU admission, these clinicians complete a brief survey about their perceptions of each patients frailty, quality of life, comorbidities, appropriateness of CPR, and expected outcomes. Their judgments will be compared with the STEPCARE studys multimodal neuroprognostication results, which use clinical exams, tests, and imaging to predict outcomes. Participants in this study are ICU clinicians caring for patients who had out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and are part of STEPCARE. The research team will analyze how well clinicians views match the detailed neuroprognostication and examine the added value of combining both approaches to predict survival with good function and quality of life at six months. The study collects survey responses and clinical data to measure these outcomes and is supported by statistical methods to assess predictive accuracy and agreement.

Validity of ICU Clinician's Appraisal of Proportionality in CPR