Response to Letter Regarding Article, 'Implementation of the Fifth Link of the Chain of Survival Concept for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest'
| Autor: | Kunihiro Itabashi, Masataka Satake, Toshiyuki Takeshige, Junichiroh Matsui, Kazuhiko Hirata, H Hirama, Takashi Tagami, Shigeki Kushimoto, Shuichi Satake, Makoto Takinami, Ryoichi Tosa, Hiroyuki Yokota, Toshio Sakata, Tokuo Yui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty business.industry medicine.medical_treatment MEDLINE Intensive care unit Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Out of hospital cardiac arrest law.invention law Multidisciplinary approach Physiology (medical) Intervention (counseling) Outcome Assessment Health Care Practice Guidelines as Topic Health care medicine Humans Chain of survival Female Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine Intensive care medicine business Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest |
| Zdroj: | Circulation. 127 |
| ISSN: | 1524-4539 0009-7322 |
| DOI: | 10.1161/circulationaha.112.154773 |
| Popis: | We would like to thank Mark and colleagues for their thoughtful comments on our study. 1 About their first concern, we agree with the concept that the rate of intensive care unit admission correlates with the patients’ favorable outcome. However, we did not include intensive care unit admission as a predictor variable in the multivariable analysis because the purpose and intervention of the current study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the “fifth link,” a multidisciplinary postresuscitation care bundle that cannot be performed without intensive care unit admission. Therefore, it is not surprising that the intensive care unit admission rate increased as a result of the intervention. We also appreciate their letter for giving us the opportunity to provide … |
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