Does quality-of-life and formal functional testing of survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest correlate poorly with traditional neurologic outcome scales?
The CPC score, relied on as a measure of functional outcome in cardiac arrest, correlates poorly with subsequent subjective quality of life and with validated objective functional testing instruments, and conclusions based on it are suspect. Future researchers should employ standardized testing instruments.
The ability of prehospital providers of all levels of training and experience to triage patients in an MCI is less than optimal. However, this ability improved dramatically after a single didactic session, and improvement persisted one month later.