State-transition trajectories in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: neurological outcomes beyond myocardial activity

Kenji Kandori, Tasuku Matsuyama, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Hiromichi Narumiya, Wataru Ishii, Masahito Hitosugi, Yohei Okada · 2025

Read State-transition trajectories in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: neurological outcomes beyond myocardial activity by Kenji Kandori, Tasuku Matsuyama, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Hiromichi Narumiya, Wataru Ishii, Masahito Hitosugi, Yohei Okada (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-12729109.txt.

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Kenji Kandori and co-authors answer critics of their heart arrest study in a 2025 letter. The study sorted arrest cases by heart rhythm at the hospital door and tracked brain outcomes. Critics urged a finer split of one rhythm kind and a bigger role for bedside sound scans of the heart.

The team holds that the finer split is not yet a set class in field care or in big arrest logs. Their own model did split the two non-shock rhythms, and their outcome gaps were wide and clear. The sound scan mark the critics cite did not foretell even hospital entry in its own study. Set log facts keep the work broad and firm, they argue.

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CREATORKenji Kandori, Tasuku Matsuyama, Tetsuhisa Kitamura, Hiromichi Narumiya, Wataru Ishii, Masahito Hitosugi, Yohei Okada
YEAR2025
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE5 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC12729109

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