Describing the Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Factors and Outcomes

Abstract

This study is a retrospective, descriptive review of all cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) attempts at Al Wakra Hospital (AWH) conducted for one year i.e. 1st Jan 2020 to 31st Dec 2020. AWH is a 329-bedded, multispecialty secondary care facility, part of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Qatar’s Governmental Healthcare organization in Qatar. In 2020, AWH had 11,862 inpatient admissions which are inclusive of Adult, Pediatric, Neonatal, Geriatric populations. There were also 1,184 admissions to the different Intensive Care Units (Medical, Surgical, Pediatric, and Neonatal). AWH has a Rapid Response Team (RRT) and Code Blue (CPR) team which is responsible for the respective codes. Code Blue team comprises one ICU Physician, one Respiratory Therapist, one Registered Nurse, all trained in Advanced Life Support. All CPR attempts were documented and recorded in CPR Record Sheets which were reviewed and the Electronic Medical Records (Cerner) were sourced for data gathering. One copy of CPR record sheets was kept in Cerner (Patient File) and one was sent to the Quality department for review/audit. After obtaining the list of CPR attempts over 2020, patients were identified, and medical records reviewed. The parameters recorded were demographic information, location, comorbidities and other relevant history, duration of CPR, initial CPR outcome, patient disposition, patient status on disposition (quality of life), etc. All these variables were considered to support the objective of this study i.e. to perform a descriptive analysis of in-hospital CPR. Based on the analysis of 110 patients for whom CPR was done, the percentage of immediate survival on the initial CPR was 53.64%. However, only 8.18% were eventually discharged to home while 11.82% were discharged to other HMC facilities.