Improved outcome prediction in unconscious cardiac arrest survivors with sensory evoked potentials compared with clinical assessment

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 721-726

  Madl, Christian ^c   Kramer, Ludwig ^d   Domanovits, Hans ^d   Woolard, Robert H ^a   Gervais, Hendrik ^b   Gendo, Alexandra ^d   Eisenhuber, Edith ^d   Grimm, Georg ^d   Sterz, Fritz ^d  

^a RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Cardiopulmonary resuscitation; Emergency physician; Evoked potentials; Intensive care unit; Patient outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 0034067303     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200003000-00020     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. 1. Brain Resuscitation Clinical Trial II Study Group: A randomized clinical study of calcium entry blocker (Lidoflazine) in the treatment of comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 1991; 324:1225-1231
2. 2. Saltuari L, Marosi M: Coma after cardiac arrest: Will he recover all right? Lancet 1994; 343:1052-1053
3. 3. Bialecki L, Woodward RS: Predicting death after CPR - experience at a nonteaching community hospital with a full-time critical care staff. Chest 1995; 108:1009-1017
4. 4. Grubb NR, Elton RA, Fox KAA: In-hospital mortality after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Lancet 1995; 346:417-421
5. 5. Levy DE, Caronna JJ, Singer BH, et al: Predicting outcome from hypoxic-ischemic coma. JAMA 1985; 253:1420-1426
6. 6. Longstreth WT, Diehr P, Inui TS: Prediction of awakening after out of hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 1983; 308:1378-1382
7. 7. Edgren E, Hedstrand U, Kelsey S, et al: Assessment of neurological prognosis in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Lancet 1994; 343:1055-1059
8. 8. Mullie A, Verstringe P, Buylaert W, et al: Predictive value of Glasgow coma score for awakening after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Lancet 1988; i:137-140
9. 9. Madl C, Grimm G, Kramer L, et al: Early prediction of individual outcome after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Lancet 1993; 341:855-858
10. 10. Chen R, Bolton CF, Young CB: Prediction of outcome in patients with anoxic coma: A clinical and electrophysiologic study. Crit Care Med 1996; 24:672-678
11. 11. Barelli A: Evoked potentials in post-anoxic coma - Value and limitations. Resuscitation 1993; 25:187-189
12. 12. Berek K, Lechleitner P, Luef G, et al: Early determination of neurological outcome after prehospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Stroke 1995; 26:543-549
13. 13. Martin GB, Paradis NA, Helpern JA, et al: Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of human brain after cardiac resuscitation. Stroke 1991; 22:462-468
14. 14. Levine RL, Wayne MA, Miller CC: End-tidal carbon dioxide and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. N Engl J Med 1997; 337:301-306
15. 15. Müllner M, Sterz F, Binder M: Arterial blood pressure after human cardiac arrest and neurological recovery. Stroke 1996; 27:59-62
16. 16. Van der Hoeven JG, de Koning J, Compier EA, et al: Early jugular bulb oxygenation monitoring in comatose patients after an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Intensive Care Med 1995; 21:567-572
17. 17. Fogel W, Krieger D, Veith M, et al: Serum neuron-specific enolase as early predictor of outcome after cardiac arrest. Crit Care Med 1997; 25:1133-1138
18. 18. Cummins RO, Chamberlain DA, Abramson NS, et al: Recommended guidelines for uniform reporting of data from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: The Utstein style. Ann Emerg Med 1991; 20:861-874
19. 19. Emergency Cardiac Care Committee and Subcommittees. American Heart Association: Guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care. JAMA 1992; 268:2171-2302
20. 20. Madl C: Prognostic evaluation of brain dysfunction after cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Intensivmed 1994; 31:21-25
21. 21. Grimm G, Madl C, Katzenschlager R, et al: Detailed evaluation of evoked potentials in Wilson's disease. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1992; 82:119-124
22. 22. Eisenhuber E, Madl C, Kramer L, et al: Detection of subclinical brain dysfunction by sensory evoked potentials in patients with severe diabetic ketoacidosis. Intensive Care Med 1997; 23:587-589
23. 23. Madl C, Grimm G, Ferenci F, et al: Serial recording of sensory evoked potentials: A noninvasive prognostic indicator in fulminant liver failure. Hepatology 1994; 20:1487-1494
24. 24. Grimm G, Ferenci P, Madl C, et al: Improvement of hepatic encephalopathy treated with flumazenil. Lancet 1988; ii:1392-1394
25. 25. Kramer L, Madl C, Stockenhuber F, et al: Beneficial effect of renal transplantation on cognitive brain dysfunction. Kidney Int 1996; 49:833-838
26. 26. Zegers de Beyl D, Borenstein S, Dufaye P, et al: Irreversible cortical damage in acute post-anoxic coma: Predictive value of somatosen-sory evoked potentials. Transplant Proc 1984; 16:98-101
27. 27. Walser H, Mattle H, Keller HM, et al: Early cortical median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials: Prognostic values in anoxic coma. Arch Neurol 1986; 42:33-38
28. 28. Brunko E, Zegers de Beyl D: Prognostic value of early cortical somatosensory evoked potentials after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1987; 66:15-24
29. 29. Goodwin SR, Friedman WA, Bellefleur M: Is it time to use evoked potentials to predict outcome in comatose children and adults? Crit Care Med 1991; 19:518-524
30. 30. Rothstein TL, Thomas EM, Sumi SM: Prediction outcome in hypoxic-ischemic coma: A prospective clinical and electrophysiologic study. Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol 1991; 79:101-107
31. 31. Madl C, Kramer L, Yeganehfar W, et al: Detection of nontraumatic comatose patients with no benefit of intensive care treatment by recording of sensory evoked potentials. Arch Neurol 1996; 53:512-516