Blood ammonia is a predictive biomarker of neurologic outcome in cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia
- Authors
- Cho, Young Mo; Lim, Yong Su; Yang, Hyuk Jun; Bin Park, Won; Cho, Jin Seong; Kim, Jin Joo; Hyun, Sung Youl; Lee, Mi Jin; Kang, Young Joon; Lee, Gun
- Issue Date
- Oct-2012
- Publisher
- W B SAUNDERS CO-ELSEVIER INC
- Citation
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE, v.30, no.8, pp.1395 - 1401
- Journal Title
- AMERICAN JOURNAL OF EMERGENCY MEDICINE
- Volume
- 30
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1395
- End Page
- 1401
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/gachon/handle/2020.sw.gachon/16130
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ajem.2011.10.009
- ISSN
- 0735-6757
- Abstract
- Purpose: The aim of this study was to investigate the value of commonly examined laboratory measurements, including ammonia and lactate, in predicting neurologic outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of patients with a return of spontaneous circulation after OHCA who were treated with TH between February 2007 and July 2010. We measured typical blood measurements on arrival at the emergency department. The subjects were classified into 2 groups: the good neurologic outcome group (Cerebral Performance Category [CPC] 1-2 at 1 month) and the poor neurologic outcome group (Cerebral Performance Category 3-5). We compared blood biomarker levels and basal characteristics between the 2 groups. Logistic regression analyses were performed to determine independent biomarkers that predict poor neurologic outcome. Results: A total of 117 patients were included. Between the 2 groups, significantly different levels of blood measurements included hemoglobin level, pH, PaO2, PaCO2, base excess, albumin, glucose, potassium, chloride, bilirubin, phosphorous, and ammonia. In multivariate analyses, blood ammonia level (>96 mg/dL; odds ratio [OR], 7.240; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.718-30.512), noncardiac causes (OR, 46.215; 95% CI, 9.670-220.873), and time interval from collapse to return of spontaneous circulation (>33 min; OR, 5.943; 95% CI, 1.543-22.886) were significantly related to poor neurologic outcome. Conclusion: Among the blood measurements on emergency department arrival, blood ammonia (>96 mg/dL) was the only independent predictive biomarker of poor neurologic outcome. Thus, higher blood ammonia level was associated with poor neurologic outcome in OHCA patients treated with TH. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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