title: Utstein-style guidelines on uniform reporting of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation in dogs and cats. A RECOVER statement.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide recommendations for reviewing and reporting clinical in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) events in dogs and cats and to establish nonambiguous operational definitions for CPR terminology.
  
  
  METHODS
  Consensus guidelines.
  
  
  METHODS
  International, academia, referral practice, general practice, and human medicine.
  
  
  METHODS
  An international veterinary Utstein task force was convened in April 2013 in San Francisco to determine the scope of the project, the variables to be reported, their definitions, and a reporting template. Factors that were essential for meaningful data reporting and were amenable to accurate collection (ie, core variables) and additional variables useful for research projects and hypothesis generation (ie, supplemental variables) were defined. Consensus on each item was either achieved during that meeting or during the subsequent online modified Delphi process and dialogue between task force members.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Variables were defined and categorized as hospital, animal, event (arrest), and outcome variables. This report recommends a template for standardized reporting of veterinary in-hospital CPR studies involving dogs or cats. Core elements include the suspected cause(s) and location of arrest, first rhythm identified, the occurrence of return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) of more than 30 seconds (any ROSC) or more than 20 minutes (sustained ROSC), survival to discharge, and functional capacity at discharge. If CPR is discontinued or the patient is euthanized by owner request, a reason is reported. The task force suggests a case report form to be used for individual resuscitation events.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The availability of these veterinary small animal CPR reporting guidelines will encourage and facilitate high-quality veterinary CPR research, improve data comparison between studies and across study sites, and serve as the foundation for veterinary CPR registries.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, University of Melbourne, Werribee, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Manuel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Boller
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
authors.forename: Dan J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Fletcher
authors.affiliation: Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Georgia, Athens, GA.
authors.forename: Benjamin M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Brainard
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA.
authors.forename: Steve
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Haskins
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Surgical and Radiological Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA.
authors.forename: Kate
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hopper
authors.affiliation: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
authors.forename: Vinay M
authors.initials: VM
authors.lastname: Nadkarni
authors.affiliation: The Royal Melbourne Hospital Clinical School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
authors.forename: Peter T
authors.initials: PT
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL.
authors.forename: Maureen
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: McMichael
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Ryohei
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nishimura
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands.
authors.forename: Joris H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Robben
authors.affiliation: Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rozanski
authors.affiliation: Lakeshore Veterinary Specialists, Glendale, WI.
authors.forename: Elke
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Rudloff
authors.affiliation: Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Tufts University, North Grafton, MA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rush
authors.affiliation: College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
authors.forename: Andre
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.affiliation: AVETS, Monroeville, PA.
authors.forename: Sean
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Smarick
authors.affiliation: Banfield Pet Hospital, Portland, OR.
authors.forename: Luis H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Tello
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016887:Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation / Q000662:veterinary*; D002371:Cat Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D002415:Cats; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000628:therapy*; D004285:Dogs; D006323:Heart Arrest / Q000628:therapy / Q000662:veterinary*; D006762:Hospitals, Animal / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic
keywords: Utstein; cardiac arrest; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; guidelines; small animal