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. 2020 Nov 4:4:100037.
doi: 10.1016/j.resplu.2020.100037. eCollection 2020 Dec.

Cardiac arrest: An interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature from 2019

Travis W Murphy  1   2 , Scott A Cohen  2 , K Leslie Avery  3 , Meenakshi P Balakrishnan  2 , Ramani Balu  4 , Muhammad Abdul Baker Chowdhury  2 , David B Crabb  2 , Karl W Huesgen  2 , Charles W Hwang  2 , Carolina B Maciel  4   5   6 , Sarah S Gul  7 , Francis Han  2 , Torben K Becker  1   2 ; Interdisciplinary Cardiac Arrest Research Review (ICARE) group
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Cardiac arrest: An interdisciplinary scoping review of the literature from 2019

Travis W Murphy et al. Resusc Plus. .

Abstract

Objectives: The Interdisciplinary Cardiac Arrest Research Review (ICARE) group was formed in 2018 to conduct a systematic annual search of peer-reviewed literature relevant to cardiac arrest. Now in its second year, the goals of the review are to illustrate best practices in research and help reduce compartmentalization of knowledge by disseminating clinically relevant advances in the field of cardiac arrest across disciplines.

Methods: An electronic search of PubMed using keywords related to cardiac arrest was conducted. Title and abstracts retrieved by these searches were screened for relevance, classified by article type (original research or review), and sorted into 7 categories. Screened manuscripts underwent standardized scoring of overall methodological quality and impact on the categorized fields of study by reviewer teams lead by a subject-matter expert editor. Articles scoring higher than 99 percentiles by category-type were selected for full critique. Systematic differences between editors' and reviewers' scores were assessed using Wilcoxon signed-rank test.

Results: A total of 3348 articles were identified on initial search; of these, 1364 were scored after screening for relevance and deduplication, and forty-five underwent full critique. Epidemiology & Public Health represented 24% of fully reviewed articles with Prehospital Resuscitation, Technology & Care, and In-Hospital Resuscitation & Post-Arrest Care Categories both representing 20% of fully reviewed articles. There were no significant differences between editor and reviewer scoring.

Conclusions: The sheer number of articles screened is a testament to the need for an accessible source calling attention to high-quality and impactful research and serving as a high-yield reference for clinicians and scientists seeking to follow the ever-growing body of cardiac arrest-related literature. This will promote further development of the unique and interdisciplinary field of cardiac arrest medicine.

Keywords: Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency medical services; Epidemiology; Heart arrest; Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest; Sudden cardiac death.

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