Out of hospital cardiac arrest is a common cause of death in both the United States
and Europe and coronary artery disease is the most frequent cause of cardiac arrest.
Current international guidelines recommend coronary angiography and percutaneous coronary
intervention (PCI) on an immediate basis in patients who have evidence of ST-segment
elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in the setting of cardiac arrest. These guidelines
on resuscitative care also recommend the same interventions in post-arrest patients
without any evidence of STEMI if they do not have an obvious non-cardiac cause of
arrest. However, there is limited evidence to currently support this practice for
the patients without STEMI. Current evidence consists only of observational studies
with varying outcomes.
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