Background: Basic life support education for schoolchildren has become a key initiative to
increase bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation rates. Our objective was to review the …

Despite major advancements in cardiovascular medicine, sudden cardiac death (SCD)
continues to be an enormous medical and societal challenge, claiming millions of lives …

Background Guidelines recommend normocapnia for adults with coma who are resuscitated
after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. However, mild hypercapnia increases cerebral blood flow …

Background In adults with refractory out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest, when conventional
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) alone does not achieve return of spontaneous …

Cardiac arrest is an important public health issue, with a survival rate of approximately 15 to
22%. A great proportion of these deaths occur after resuscitation due to post-cardiac arrest …

Background In selected patients with refractory out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest, extracorporeal
cardiopulmonary resuscitation represents a promising approach when conventional …

Treatment of cardiac arrest/cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CA/CPR)-induced brain injury
remains a challenging issue without viable therapeutic options. Octanoic acid (OA), a lipid …

Most of the patients who die after cardiac arrest do so because of hypoxic-ischemic brain
injury (HIBI). Experimental evidence shows that temperature control targeted at hypothermia …

Purpose Guidelines recommend targeting mean arterial pressure (MAP)> 65 mmHg in
patients after cardiac arrest (CA). Recent trials have studied the effects of targeting a higher …

Neurofilament proteins (Nf) have been validated and established as a reliable body fluid
biomarker for neurodegenerative pathology. This review covers seven Nf isoforms, Nf light …