Abstract
Nearly 300,000 Americans experience in-hospital cardiac arrest each year.1 Patients receiving maintenance dialysis treatment account for a substantial proportion of these cardiac arrests; it has been previously reported that 17% of all in-hospital cardiac arrests occur among patients receiving maintenance dialysis.2 Historically, the outcome of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) among individuals receiving maintenance dialysis has been deemed to be poor.3 Previous studies have shown a lower survival after in-hospital cardiac arrest among patients receiving maintenance dialysis than other populations2; however, these findings could have been in part related to confounding and underreporting of CPR events as well as the resuscitation strategy and perceptions of futility.
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