Predictors of poor neurological outcome in adult comatose survivors of cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Part 1: Patients not treated with therapeutic hypothermia

Resuscitation

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1310-1323

  Sandroni, Claudio ^a   Cavallaro, Fabio ^a   Callaway, Clifton W ^b   Sanna, Tommaso ^a   D'Arrigo, Sonia ^a   Kuiper, Michael ^c   Della Marca, Giacomo ^a   Nolan, Jerry P ^d  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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

^c MEDICAL CENTER LEEUWARDEN   (Netherlands)

^d ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac arrest; Post anoxic coma; Prognostication

Indexed keywords

NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S100B;

ACCURACY; COMA; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; DISABILITY SEVERITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; META ANALYSIS; MYOCLONUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUPIL REFLEX; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURVIVOR; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW;

CARDIAC ARREST; POST-ANOXIC COMA; PROGNOSTICATION;

BRAIN DISEASES; COMA; HEART ARREST; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884141641     PISSN: 03009572     EISSN: 18731570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2013.05.013     Document Type: Review

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