Abid Hussain, Qazi Mohammad Tufail, Javed Iqbal.
Outcome of Cardiac Arrest in patients with End Stage Renal Disease (ERSD) Maintaining Haemodialysis.
Pak J Med Health Sci Jan ;8(1):192-3.

Aim: To determine the frequency of outcome of cardiac arrest in patients with end stage renal disease on maintenance haemodialysis. Study design: It was a cross sectional survey. Duration: From September 2012 to September 2013. Method: A total of 50 patients between 40-70 years of either gender and ESRD cases of more than 6 months duration on haemodialysis undergoing cardiac arrest were enrolled in the study while subjects with increased BMI(>30kg/m2), cigarette smoking, and having history of cardiac diseases were excluded from the study to control the effect modifiers. Results: Age distribution of the patients was done which shows 29(58%) between 40-55 years and 21(42%) were between 56-70 years, mean±sd was calculated as 52.89±3.67. Male were recorded 33(66%) while 17(34%) were females. Duration of haemodialysis was recorded which shows 22(44%) had 6-12 months while 28(56%) had >12 months duration of haemodialysis. Conclusion: Frequency of survival rate is higher among patients with cardiac arrest maintaining haemodialysis in end stage renal disease but it is not significantly higher than mortality rate.

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