Differences in cerebral saturation measured during prehospital advanced life support, between patients with presumed cardiac origin and noncardiac origin of cardiac arrest

During out-of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) cerebral saturation may provide relevant information on cerebral oxygenation. In this study we examined the time course in cerebral saturation (rSO2) during prehospital ALS comparing patients with a presumed cardiac origin (survivor = Sc, nonsurvivor = NSc) of arrest and noncardiac origin (survivor = Snc, nonsurvivor = NSnc) of arrest.