Significant improvements have been achieved in cardiac arrest resuscitation and postarrest
resuscitation care, but mortality remains high. Most of the poor outcomes and deaths of …

Objectives To review and update the evidence on predictors of poor outcome (death,
persistent vegetative state or severe neurological disability) in adult comatose survivors of …

JP Nolan et al./Resuscitation 95 (2015) 202–222 203 from 39 countries reviewed thousands
of relevant, peer-reviewed publications to address 169 specific resuscitation questions, each …

Background Among cardiac arrest survivors, about half remain comatose 72 h following
return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Prognostication of poor neurological outcome in …

Purpose To assess the sensitivity and false positive rate (FPR) of neurological examination
and somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEPs) to predict poor outcome in adult patients …

Purpose Refractory status epilepticus (RSE) is a life‐threatening neurologic emergency with
high mortality and morbidity. The aim of this study was to identify and quantify associations …

Introduction Hypoxic-ischemic brain injury is the main cause of death and disability of
comatose patients after cardiac arrest. Early and reliable prognostication is challenging …

The prognosis of patients who are admitted in a comatose state following successful
resuscitation after cardiac arrest remains uncertain. Although the introduction of therapeutic …

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation is started in 5000 victims of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in
Sweden each year and the survival rate is approximately 10%. The subsequent …

Background This study evaluated the association between the results of immediate brain
computed tomography (CT) scans and outcome in patients who were treated with …