Table 5 Percentage of patients that presented with ONLY Asystole 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Salen et al. [12] | ROSC | 36 | 0% (0/0) | 0% (0/36) | 100% (36/36) | 0% (0/0) |
Kim et al. [13] | ROSC | 39 | 0% (0/0) | 53.8% (21/39) | 46.2% (18/39) | 0% (0/0) |
Tomruk et al. [10] | ROSC | 77 | 80% (4/5) | 43.1% (31/72) | 56.9 (41/72) | 20% (1/5) |
Blaivas et al. [14] | Hospital Admission | 65 | 0% (0/0) | 0% (0/65) | 100% (65/65) | 0% (0/0) |
Salen et al. [6] | Hospital Admission | 36 | 0% (0/3) | 3% (1/33) | 97% (32/33) | 100% (3/3) |
Aichinger et al. [11] | Hospital Admission | 20 | 100% (1/1) | 5.3% (1/19) | 94.7% (18/19) | 0% (0/1) |
Breitkreutz et al. [16] | Hospital Admission | 37 | 69.2% (9/13) | 16.7% (4/24) | 83.3% (20/24) | 30.8% (4/13) |
Cebicci et al. [8] | 24-h survival | 290 | 0% (2/2) | 0% (0/288) | 100% (288/288) | 0% (0/2) |
TOTAL | 600 | 66.7% (16/24) | 10.1% (58/576) | 89.9% (518/576) | 33.3% (8/24) |