Death Prediction and Physiology after Removal of Therapy Study (DePPaRT)

View publication Resumption of Cardiac Activity after Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Measures

After withdrawal of life-sustaining measures, transient resumption of at least one cycle of cardiac activity after pulselessness occurred in 14% of patients according to retrospective analysis of waveforms; only 1% of such resumptions were identified at the bedside. These events occurred within 4 minutes 20 seconds after a period of pulselessness.