Heart rate may predict survival, brain function in comatose cardiac arrest survivors

Patients with sinus bradycardia during therapeutic hypothermia had a 50 to 60 percent lower mortality rate at 180 days than those with no sinus bradycardia, a study has found. The same research also found that sinus bradycardia was directly associated with a better neurological status 180 days after the arrest.

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