The futility of resuscitating an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cannot be summarized by three simple criteria

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Nantes, France; University of Nantes, Microbiotas Hosts Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistances (MiHAR), Nantes, France. Electronic address: francois.javaudin@chu-nantes.fr.
• ² Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital of Nantes, France; University of Nantes, Microbiotas Hosts Antibiotics and Bacterial Resistances (MiHAR), Nantes, France.
• ³ Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Nantes, France.
• ⁴ Public Health Department EA 2694, University of Lille, Lille University Hospital, France.