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01-02-2011 | Poster presentation
Predicting survival in cardiac arrest patients admitted to intensive care using the Prognosis After Resuscitation score
Authors:
R Porter, I Goodhart, A Temple
Published in:
Critical Care
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Special Issue 1/2011
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Excerpt
Developed from meta-analysis in 1992, the Prognosis After Resuscitation (PAR) score consists of seven, relatively straight-forward to calculate, variables with scores greater than 5 predicting nonsurvival [
1]. The aim of this evaluation was to assess PAR scoring as a means of predicting nonsurvival of post-cardiac arrest patients admitted to the general intensive care unit (ITU) at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (STH). …