Prognostication in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest: An advisory statement from the European Resuscitation Council and the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1816-1831

  Sandroni, Claudio ^a   Cariou, Alain ^b   Cavallaro, Fabio ^a   Cronberg, Tobias ^c   Friberg, Hans ^d   Hoedemaekers, Cornelia ^e   Horn, Janneke ^f   Nolan, Jerry P ^g   Rossetti, Andrea O ^h   Soar, Jasmeet ⁱ  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Paris Descartes University ^*  (France)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

ⁱ SOUTHMEAD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical examination; Coma; CT scan; Heart arrest; Magnetic resonance; Neuron specific enolase; Prognosis; Somatosensory evoked potentials

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; PROTEIN S100B;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMATOSE PATIENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORNEA REFLEX; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EUROPE; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORTALITY; MYOCLONUS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 84918818793     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: 14321238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-014-3470-x     Document Type: Article

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