Association between the first post-resuscitation partial pressure of arterial carbon dioxide and neurologic outcomes in children with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a multicenter retrospective cohort study.
BACKGROUND The prognostic significance of the first post-ROSC PaCO2 in pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) remains uncertain. We evaluated its association with 30-day outcomes. METHODS We conducted a multicenter retrospective cohort study using the Japanese OHCA registry (2014-2022). Pediatric patients ag...