External Validation of Pittsburgh Cardiac Arrest Category (PCAC) Illness Severity Score
REBEL EM
JULY 14, 2022
Background Information: Multiple illness severity scores have been developed for use after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). Unfortunately, these rely on information that is not immediately available to providers in the early hours following return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). 1 The Pittsburgh Cardiac Arrest Category (PCAC) Score ( Figure 2) was derived from the Full Outline of UnResponsiveness (FOUR) brainstem and motor sub-scores ( Figure 1 ).
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