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Cerebral Edema After Cardiac Arrest: Tell Tale Sign of Catastrophic Injury or a Treatable Complication?

Authors: Teddy S. Youn, Carolina B. Maciel, David M. Greer

Published in: Neurocritical Care | Issue 2/2016

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Despite advances in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for cardiac arrest being proposed as early as the 1950s [1] and 1960s [2], only in the modern era has the use of specific interventions such as post-arrest therapeutic hypothermia [3] and community-wide emergency medical services, like bystander-initiated CPR and first responder defibrillation [4], consistently demonstrated a benefit to survival. In addition, a recent Cochrane review has determined that the only strategy that has shown improvement in neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest is induction of mild therapeutic hypothermia [5]. …

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Title: Cerebral Edema After Cardiac Arrest: Tell Tale Sign of Catastrophic Injury or a Treatable Complication?
Authors: Teddy S. Youn
Carolina B. Maciel
David M. Greer
Publication date: 01-04-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Neurocritical Care / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 1541-6933
Electronic ISSN: 1556-0961
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-016-0267-5

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