Recovery Potential in Patients After Cardiac Arrest Who Die After Limitations or Withdrawal of Life Support
In this cohort study of comatose patients resuscitated from cardiac arrest, most who died after WLST were considered by experts to have had recovery potential. These findings suggest that novel solutions to avoiding deaths based on biased prognostication or incomplete information are needed.
Authors
- Nicholas Case (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2047-8701)
- Andrea O. Rossetti (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7878-172X)
- Cindy H. Hsu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8192-6969)
- Cameron Dezfulian (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4486-0446)
- Katherine M. Berg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1897-1086)
- Cecelia Ratay (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8813-9327)
- Maria De‐Arteaga (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2297-3308)
- Patrick J. Coppler (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0731-7989)
- Michael C. Kurz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7530-2930)
- Ankur Doshi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2040-4179)
- Romergryko G. Geocadin (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6618-5656)
- Mypinder Sekhon
- Sachin Agarwal (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0559-9326)
- Jasmeet Soar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5970-6073)
- Clifton W. Callaway (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3309-1573)
- Alejandro A. Rabinstein (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8359-2838)
- Marion Moseby‐Knappe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8160-5957)
- Francis Xavier Guyette (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9151-4896)
- Teresa May (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9130-8013)
- Nicholas J. Johnson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9915-0591)
- Alexis Steinberg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6681-9380)
- Christoph Leithner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8277-846X)
- Bradley J. Molyneaux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3377-1229)
- Alain Cariou (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3258-4672)
- David M. Greer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2026-8333)
- Mypinder S. Sekhon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4487-301X)
- Baruch Fischhoff (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3030-6874)
- Claudio Sandroni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8878-2611)
- Michael W. Donnino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8541-8099)
- Karen G. Hirsch (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5474-3243)
- Hiromichi Naito (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7308-1716)
- Carolina B. Maciel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8763-5839)
- Jerry P. Nolan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3141-3812)
- Theresa M. Olasveengen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4924-3129)
- Jean-Baptiste Lascarrou
- Alain Cariou
- Fabio Silvio Taccone
- Sara DiFiore-Sprouse
- Min Jung Kathy Chae
Institutions
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
- Boston University (US)
- Tufts University (US)
- Oslo University Hospital (NO)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- North Bristol NHS Trust (GB)
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Mayo Clinic (US)
- Maine Medical Center (US)
- University of Helsinki (FI)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Okayama University (JP)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- Palo Alto University (US)
- Baylor College of Medicine (US)
- University of Oslo (NO)
- Lund University (SE)
- University of Washington (US)
- Université Paris Cité (FR)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Columbia University Irving Medical Center (US)
- Johns Hopkins Medicine (US)
- Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
- Southmead Hospital (GB)
- Vancouver General Hospital (CA)
- University of Florida (US)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- University of Warwick (GB)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Hôpital Cochin (FR)
- Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR)
- MaineHealth (US)
- Skåne University Hospital (SE)
- Istituti di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IT)
- Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust (GB)
- Instituto Estadual do Cérebro Paulo Niemeyer (BR)
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Freie Universität Berlin (DE)
- Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin (DE)
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Nantes Université (FR)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JAMA Network Open
- Published
- 2025-03-25
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2025.1714
- Citations
- 20
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 45.07
Funders
- National Institutes of Health