Early CT signs in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors: Temporal profile and prognostic significance

Resuscitation

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 534-538

  Inamasu, Joji ^a   Miyatake, Satoru ^a   Suzuki, Masaru ^a   Nakatsukasa, Masashi ^a   Tomioka, Hideto ^a   Honda, Masanori ^a   Kase, Kenichi ^a   Kobayashi, Kenji ^a  

^a Imperial Foundation Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early CT sign; Loss of boundary; Out of hospital cardiac arrest; Return of spontaneous circulation; Sulcal effacement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAY MATTER; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVOR; WHITE MATTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOXIA, BRAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951652983     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2010.01.012     Document Type: Article

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