Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- * Adult patients, age ≥18 and \<85 years
- * Experience prolonged, non-trauma-related in-hospital cardiac arrest, defined by cessation of heartbeat and respiration requiring CPR for at least 10 minutes
Exclusion Criteria:
- * Age \<18 years old
- * Age \> 85 years old
- * Patients with DNR/DNI orders (Do Not Resuscitate/Do Not Intubate)
- * Patients admitted to the hospital with a cardiac arrest arising from trauma
- * Patients who achieve return of spontaneous circulation within 10 minutes of CPR
- * Inability to start study product administration within 20 minutes of cardiac arrest onset
- * Prisoners
- * Women who are known to be pregnant
- * Patients with a history of RBC antibodies or positive antibody screen prior to enrollment in the study, unless previously cross-matched units are available for transfusion.
- * Patients with ultrasound evidence of right ventricular dilatation at time of CA
- * Patients with known prior objection to receipt of blood products.
- * Patients for whom administration of additional fluid volume is contraindicated (as determined by physician responsible for care)
- * Physician objection based on concern that intervention would interfere with patient care plan
Ages Eligible for Study:
18 Years to 85 Years (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)
Sexes Eligible for Study: ALL
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
No