Performance of OHCA, NULL-PLEASE and CAHP scores to predict survival in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest due to acute coronary syndrome

Abstract

AimOut-of-hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) carries a poor prognostic with high mortality rates and multiple scoring systems have been developed to assess its prognostic. This study sought to evaluate the performance of three prognostic scores to predict survival in OHCA patients due to acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Methods and resultsThis is an observational, monocentric study including 386 consecutive patients treated for OHCA due to ACS, treated by percutaneous coronary intervention, between 2007 and 2019. The OHCA, NULL-PLEASE and CAHP scores were calculated respectively for 370 patients (95.9%), 371 patients (96.1%) and 350 patients (90.7%). A C-statistic analysis was performed to determine score performance. The areas under the curve for the OHCA, NULL-PLEASE and CAHP scores were 0.861 (95% CI, 0.823–0.898), 0.789 (95% CI, 0.744–0.834) and 0.830 (95% CI, 0.788–0.872) respectively demonstrating good performance. The OHCA score performed better than the NULL-PLEASE score (p = 0.001), and there was no difference between the CAHP and the NULL-PLEASE score (p = 0.062) nor between the OHCA and the CAHP score (p = 0.105). ConclusionThe OHCA score, the NULL-PLEASE score and the CAHP score performed well in predicting in-hospital death in patients presenting OHCA secondary to ACS. The NULL-PLEASE score is the easiest to use but performed less accurately than the OHCA score.