Goal-directed CPR Using Cerebral Oximetry

Inclusion criteria

• In-hospital cardiac arrest patient
• Age ≥18 years
• Age <80 years
• CPR lasting ≥5 minutes

Exclusion criteria

• Patients < 18 years of age or > 80 years of age
• Out of hospital cardiac arrest patients
• ≥3 acute organ failures (defined as acute renal failure requiring dialysis, fulminant liver failure i.e. liver failure with INR≥1.5, respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation)
• Repeat in-hospital cardiac arrest event within 14 days of a prior cardiac arrest
• Presence of known raised intracranial pressure
• Presence of known traumatic brain injury or subarachnoid hemorrhage <14 days old, frontal lobe brain tumors or subdural hemorrhage
• Hyperbilirubinemia >1.0 mg/dl (based on the absorption of near-infrared light by bilirubin)
• Resuscitation using extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)