Calcium use during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with worse outcomes

Katherine Cashen; Robert M Sutton; Ron W Reeder; Tageldin Ahmed; Michael J Bell; Robert A Berg; Candice Burns; Joseph A Carcillo; Todd C Carpenter; J Michael Dean; J Wesley Diddle; Myke Federman; Ericka L Fink; Deborah Franzon; Aisha H Frazier; Stuart H Friess; Kathryn Graham; Mark Hall; David A Hehir; Christopher M Horvat; Leanna L Huard; Theresa KirkpatrickN; Tensing Maa; Arushi Manga; Patrick S McQuillen; Ryan W Morgan; Peter M Mourani; Vinay M Nadkarni; Maryam Y Naim; Daniel Notterman; Kent Page; Murray M Pollack; Danna Qunibi; Anil Sapru; Carleen Schneiter; Matthew P Sharron; Neeraj Srivastava; Shirley Viteri; David Wessel; Heather A Wolfe; Andrew R Yates; Athena F Zuppa; Kathleen L Meert; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute ICU-RESUScitation Project Investigators

doi:10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.109673

Calcium use during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest is associated with worse outcomes

Resuscitation. 2023 Apr:185:109673. doi: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.109673. Epub 2022 Dec 21.

Authors

Katherine Cashen¹, Robert M Sutton², Ron W Reeder³, Tageldin Ahmed⁴, Michael J Bell⁵, Robert A Berg², Candice Burns⁶, Joseph A Carcillo⁷, Todd C Carpenter⁸, J Michael Dean³, J Wesley Diddle⁵, Myke Federman⁹, Ericka L Fink⁷, Deborah Franzon¹⁰, Aisha H Frazier¹¹, Stuart H Friess¹², Kathryn Graham², Mark Hall¹³, David A Hehir², Christopher M Horvat⁷, Leanna L Huard⁹, Theresa KirkpatrickN⁹, Tensing Maa¹³, Arushi Manga¹², Patrick S McQuillen¹⁰, Ryan W Morgan², Peter M Mourani¹⁴, Vinay M Nadkarni², Maryam Y Naim², Daniel Notterman¹⁵, Kent Page³, Murray M Pollack⁵, Danna Qunibi¹³, Anil Sapru⁹, Carleen Schneiter⁸, Matthew P Sharron⁵, Neeraj Srivastava⁹, Shirley Viteri¹¹, David Wessel⁵, Heather A Wolfe², Andrew R Yates¹³, Athena F Zuppa², Kathleen L Meert¹⁶; Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Collaborative Pediatric Critical Care Research Network (CPCCRN) and National Heart Lung and Blood Institute ICU-RESUScitation Project Investigators

Affiliations

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Duke Children's Hospital, Duke University, 2301 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
² Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, 34th Street and Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
³ Department of Pediatrics, University of Utah, 295 Chipeta Way, P.O. Box 581289, Salt Lake City, UT 84158, USA.
⁴ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, 3901 Beaubien Blvd, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital, George Washington University School of Medicine, 111 Michigan Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20010, USA.
⁶ Department of Pediatrics and Human Development, Michigan State University, 100 Michigan St, NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49503, USA.
⁷ Department of Critical Care Medicine, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh, One Children's Hospital Drive, 4401 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, USA.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 13121 East 17th Ave, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California Los Angeles, 757 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatrics, Benioff Children's Hospital, University of California-San Francisco, 1845 Fourth Street, San Francisco, CA 94158, USA.
¹¹ Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware, 1600 Rockland Rd, Wilmington, DE, 19803, USA; Department of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, 1025 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, USA.
¹² Department of Pediatrics, St. Louis Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, One Children's Place, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA.
¹³ Department of Pediatrics, Nationwide Children's Hospital, The Ohio State University, 700 Children's Drive, Columbus, OH 43205, USA.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Arkansas Children's Research Institute, 13 Children's Way, Little Rock, AR 72202, USA.
¹⁵ Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, 119 Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Central Michigan University, 3901 Beaubien Blvd, Detroit, MI 48201, USA. Electronic address: kmeert@dmc.org.

PMID: 36565948
PMCID: PMC10065910
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2022.109673

Abstract

Aim: To evaluate associations between calcium administration and outcomes among children with in-hospital cardiac arrest and among specific subgroups in which calcium use is hypothesized to provide clinical benefit.

Methods: This is a secondary analysis of observational data collected prospectively as part of the ICU-RESUScitation project. Children 37 weeks post-conceptual age to 18 years who received chest compressions in one of 18 intensive care units from October 2016-March 2021 were eligible. Data included child and event characteristics, pre-arrest laboratory values, pre- and intra-arrest haemodynamics, and outcomes. Outcomes included sustained return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC), survival to hospital discharge, and survival to hospital discharge with favourable neurologic outcome. A propensity score weighted cohort was used to evaluate associations between calcium use and outcomes. Subgroups included neonates, and children with hyperkalaemia, sepsis, renal insufficiency, cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass, and calcium-avid cardiac diagnoses.

Results: Of 1,100 in-hospital cardiac arrests, median age was 0.63 years (IQR 0.19, 3.81); 450 (41%) received calcium. Among the weighted cohort, calcium use was not associated with sustained ROSC (aOR, 0.87; CI95 0.61-1.24; p = 0.445), but was associated with lower rates of both survival to hospital discharge (aOR, 0.68; CI95 0.52-0.89; p = 0.005) and survival with favourable neurologic outcome at hospital discharge (aOR, 0.75; CI95 0.57-0.98; p = 0.038). Among subgroups, calcium use was associated with lower rates of survival to hospital discharge in children with sepsis and renal insufficiency.

Conclusions: Calcium use was common during paediatric in-hospital cardiac arrest and associated with worse outcomes at hospital discharge.

Keywords: Calcium; Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Child; Infant; Neonate.

Publication types

Observational Study
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural

MeSH terms

Calcium
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation*
Child
Heart Arrest* / therapy
Hospitals, Pediatric
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Patient Discharge
Retrospective Studies

Substances

Calcium

Abstract

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MeSH terms

Substances

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