European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 21, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(6):773-774; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehl537
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Predicting survival with good neurological recovery at hospital admission after successful resuscitation of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: the OHCA score: reply
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The main concern raised by Sunde et al. is a very important one and points to a need for bearing in mind the message of our manuscript.1 Under no circumstances should any scoring system (including the OHCA score) be used to help predict survival in the individual patient. As stated in our discussion (page 2844), The probability predicted by our