Abstract
METHODS: An IRB approved prospective observational study of adult cardiac arrest patients who received Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and medical care in the Emergency Department (ED) of an urban academic tertiary care hospital between 2007 and 2009. Two sets of aerobic and anaerobic blood cultures were drawn using sterile technique upon arrival in the ED. Bacteremia cardiac arrest patients (B-CAP) were defined as a minimum of two positive blood cultures with skin flora bacteria identified or one positive blood culture with non-skin flora bacteria. Non-bacteremia cardiac arrest patients (N-CAP) had no bacterial growth after 5 days or had contamination with one positive blood culture of skin indigenous bacteria.
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