ICU SAQs · Post-cardiac arrest care
The coronary angiography after cardiac arrest — the COACT trial
A CICM Second-Part SAQ on the COACT trial (Lemkes NEJM 2019) — no benefit of the immediate coronary angiography over the delayed in the non-STE patient; the immediate is reserved for the STE, the instability, or the ongoing ischaemia.
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Critically appraise the role of the immediate versus the delayed coronary angiography in the comatose survivor of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without the ST elevation.
Question
Critically appraise the role of the immediate versus the delayed coronary angiography in the comatose survivor of the out-of-hospital cardiac arrest without the ST elevation.[1]
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- [1]Lemkes JS, Janssens GN, van den Hoeven NW, et al. Coronary Angiography after Cardiac Arrest without ST-Segment Elevation (COACT). New England Journal of Medicine, 2019.PMID 30883057
- [2]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.