Should our crystal ball after cardiac arrest include one of the building blocks of life?

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 3321-3323

  Tisherman, Samuel A ^a   Rittenberger, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

anoxic encephalopathy; biomarkers; cardiac arrest; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA 122; MICRORNA 22; PROCALCITONIN; PROTEIN S 100;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EPILEPTIC STATE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FEMALE; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; MALE; MICRORNAS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 84870156112     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31826536c9     Document Type: Editorial

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