Substantial progress has been made over the past two decades in detecting, predicting and
promoting recovery of consciousness in patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) …

Hypoxic–ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) is the main cause of death in patients who are
comatose after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. A poor neurological outcome—defined as …

Importance It is uncertain what the optimal target temperature is for targeted temperature
management (TTM) in patients who are comatose following cardiac arrest. Objective To …

Purpose To assess the ability of clinical examination, blood biomarkers, electrophysiology or
neuroimaging assessed within 7 days from return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) to …

The prognosis after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) has improved in the past few
decades because of advances in interventions used outside and in hospital. About half of …

Importance Neuroprognostication studies are potentially susceptible to a self-fulfilling
prophecy as investigated prognostic parameters may affect withdrawal of life-sustaining …

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 …

Aims To investigate the ability of 30-min electroencephalogram (EEG), short-latency
somatosensory evoked potentials (SEPs) and brain computed tomography (CT) to predict …

Background Time to awakening after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) and post-
resuscitation therapeutic hypothermia (TH) varies widely. We examined the time interval …

Background Brain injury is reportedly the main cause of death for patients resuscitated after
out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, the majority may actually die following …