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01-07-2015 | Editorial

EEG for outcome prediction after cardiac arrest: when the quest for optimization needs standardization

Author: Andrea O. Rossetti

Published in: Intensive Care Medicine | Issue 7/2015

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Early outcome prognostication of comatose patients following cardiac arrest represents a daunting task; several clinical, biochemical, radiological, and neurophysiological parameters have been intensively evaluated recently, in the context of growing popularity of targeted temperature management or therapeutic hypothermia (TH) in the last decade [1, 2]. Among these potential predictors, EEG represents a relatively cheap, noninvasive tool available at the bedside, but the assessment of its exact role has to deal with the influence of timing, lingering pharmacological sedation, temperature, and not least the expertise of interpreters and the sometimes confusing taxonomy of the findings. …

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Title: EEG for outcome prediction after cardiac arrest: when the quest for optimization needs standardization
Author: Andrea O. Rossetti
Publication date: 01-07-2015
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Intensive Care Medicine / Issue 7/2015
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Electronic ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-015-3841-y

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