Clinical practice. Neurologic prognosis after cardiac arrest

N Engl J Med. 2009 Aug 6;361(6):605-11. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcp0903466.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Brain Death / diagnosis*
  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
  • Coma / etiology*
  • Evoked Potentials, Somatosensory
  • Glasgow Outcome Scale
  • Heart Arrest / complications*
  • Heart Arrest / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hypothermia, Induced
  • Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / etiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic
  • Prognosis
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / complications
  • Ventricular Fibrillation / therapy