ISSN: 2329-9495
Byomesh Tripathi, Shilpkumar Arora, Sidakpal Panaich, Sopan Lahewala, Nilay Patel, Viral Patel, Varun Kumar, Ashish Gupta, Abhishek Deshmukh, Eyal Herzog, Umesh Gidwani and Apurva Badheka
Objective of our study was to find out survival benefit of performing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with cardiac arrest. The study population was derived from the nationwide inpatient sample (NIS) database from 2008 to 2012. Cardiac arrest, ventricular fibrillation (Vfib), ventricular tachycardia (Vtach), asystole/pulseless electrical activity (PEA) and ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) were identified using appropriate international classification of disease (ICD-9) diagnostic codes and PCI was identified using appropriate ICD-9 procedural code. The primary endpoint was in-hospital mortality. Multivariate analysis (odds ratio , 95% confidence interval, p value) showed increased mortality with older age (1.01, 1.01-1.02, p