Early termination of resuscitation in in‐hospital cardiac arrest and impact to the outcome calculations

Some in-hospital resuscitation attempts are assessed futile and terminated early on. We hypothesized that if these cases are reported separately, the true outcome of in-hospital cardiac arrest is better reflected.We conducted a 3-year prospective observational Utstein-style study in Tampere, Finland. All adult in-hospital cardiac arrests outside critical care areas attended by hospital's rapid response team were included. Resuscitation attempts...