Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Premature Termination of Resuscitation in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest
Brief Summary: The study Premature Termination of Resuscitation in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest focuses on using innovative knowledge translation strategies to improve appropriate neuroprognostication for survivors of cardiac arrest and prevent premature termination of life sustaining therapies. This is important because any early gains achieved during resuscitation will be nullified if clinicians terminate life-sustaining therapies prematurely based on inadequate prognostic information. An effective translation strategy for neuroprognostication will result in improved physician adherence to evidence-based medicine and an increase in the proportion of patients surviving to achieve a good neurological outcome following cardiac arrest.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient with cardiac arrest as confirmed by the absence of a pulse, unresponsiveness and apnea
* Age above 16 (Age 21 and above for CGH only)

Exclusion Criteria:

* Traumatic cardiac arrest
* Age 16 and below (Age 20 and below for CGH only)
* CPR is contraindicated
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patents aged 18 years (or local age of consent) or more who suffer non-traumatic arrest of presumed cardiac etiology in an out-of-hospital setting and who do not meet any of the exclusion criteria below.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Traumatic arrest (blunt, penetrating, burns)
* Arrest due to exsanguinations, strangulation, smoke inhalation, drug overdose, electrocution, hanging, drowning.
* Known or clinically apparent pregnancy
* Do Not Attempt to Resuscitate (DNAR) orders
* Apparent patient weight more than 225 kg (500 lbs)
* Wards of the state
* Prisoner
* CPR device other than AutoPulse
* Patients who are reached after 16 minutes after the time of emergency call (911). This exclusion is determined at the time of CRF abstraction, not during treatment of the patient.

  * If patient is unaccompanied, or accompanied by a person or persons unfamiliar with their his-tory, determination of these exclusion criteria will, perforce, be left to the best estimation of the rescue personnel. At no time, should an attempt to determine these criteria be allowed to delay the administration of life-saving treatment.

    * These criteria will be determined in the best estimation of the rescue personnel, or if the AutoPulse signals that the patient is outside the parameters for AutoPulse deployment.
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Adult in-patients with cardiac arrest requiring epinephrine according to current guidelines.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Age \< 18 years.
* Documented terminal illness (life expectancy \< 6 weeks).
* Do not resuscitate status.
* Cardiac arrest before arrival at hospital.
* Prior enrollment into the study (i.e. second or third inhospital arrest etc.).
* Corticosteroid treatment before the cardiac arrest.
* Any inaccurate documentation of CPR data such as medication, number of countershocks etc.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients =/\> 18 years of age
* Non-traumatic out of hospital cardiac arrest
* Sustained return of spontaneous circulation (palpable pulse for \> 20 minutes)
* Comatose (i.e. without full neurological recovery; non-responsive to verbal commands)
* Surviving to at least 6 hours after emergency department arrival

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients who die within 6 hours of emergency department arrival

Answer: D