Awakening and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in cardiac arrest survivors treated with therapeutic hypothermia

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2493-2499

  Mulder, Maximilian ^a,b   Gibbs, Haley G ^c   Smith, Stephen W ^b,d   Dhaliwal, Ramnik ^b   Scott, Nathaniel L ^b   Sprenkle, Mark D ^b,d   Geocadin, Romergryko G ^a,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HENNEPIN COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain death; Cardiac arrest; Outcome; Prognostication; Therapeutic hypothermia; Withdrawal of life sustaining treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEATH; CAUSE OF DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMATOSE PATIENT; FEMALE; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; COMA; COMPLICATION; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN DEATH; COMA; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; OUT-OF-HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 84922560145     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000540     Document Type: Article

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