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Hagberg G, Ihle-Hansen H, Sandset EC, Jacobsen D, Wimmer H, Ihle-Hansen H. Long Term Cognitive Function After Cardiac Arrest: A Mini-Review. Front Aging Neurosci 2022; 14:885226. [PMID: 35721022 PMCID: PMC9204346 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2022.885226] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/27/2022] [Accepted: 05/09/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. With better pre- and inhospital treatment, including cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) as an integrated part of public education and more public-access defibrillators available, OHCA survival has increased over the last decade. There are concerns, after successful resuscitation, of cerebral hypoxia and degrees of potential acquired brain injury with resulting poor cognitive functioning. Cognitive function is not routinely assessed in OHCA survivors, and there is a lack of consensus on screening methods for cognitive changes. This narrative mini-review, explores available evidence on hypoxic brain injury and long-term cognitive function in cardiac arrest survivors and highlights remaining knowledge deficits.
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Maciel CB, Barden MM, Youn TS, Dhakar MB, Greer DM. Neuroprognostication Practices in Postcardiac Arrest Patients: An International Survey of Critical Care Providers. Crit Care Med 2020; 48:e107-e114. [PMID: 31939809 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000004107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To characterize approaches to neurologic outcome prediction by practitioners who assess prognosis in unconscious cardiac arrest individuals, and assess compliance to available guidelines. DESIGN International cross-sectional study. SETTING We administered a web-based survey to members of Neurocritical Care Society, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and American Academy of Neurology who manage unconscious cardiac arrest patients to characterize practitioner demographics and current neuroprognostic practice patterns. SUBJECTS Physicians that are members of aforementioned societies who care for successfully resuscitated cardiac arrest individuals. INTERVENTIONS Not applicable. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS A total of 762 physicians from 22 countries responses were obtained. A significant proportion of respondents used absent corneal reflexes (33.5%) and absent pupillary reflexes (36.2%) at 24 hours, which is earlier than the recommended 72 hours in the standard guidelines. Certain components of the neurologic examination may be overvalued, such as absent motor response or extensor posturing, which 87% of respondents considered being very or critically important prognostic indicators. Respondents continue to rely on myoclonic status epilepticus and neuroimaging, which were favored over median nerve somatosensory evoked potentials for prognostication, although the latter has been demonstrated to have a higher predictive value. Regarding definitive recommendations based on poor neurologic prognosis, most physicians seem to wait until the postarrest timepoints proposed by current guidelines, but up to 25% use premature time windows. CONCLUSIONS Neuroprognostic approaches to hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy vary among physicians and are often not consistent with current guidelines. The overall inconsistency in approaches and deviation from evidence-based recommendations are concerning in this disease state where mortality is so integrally related to outcome prediction.
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- Carolina B Maciel
- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Department of Neurology, UF-Health Shands Hospital, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
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- Department of Neurology, UF-Health Shands Hospital, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
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- Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
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- Department of Neurology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT
- Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA
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Topjian AA, de Caen A, Wainwright MS, Abella BS, Abend NS, Atkins DL, Bembea MM, Fink EL, Guerguerian AM, Haskell SE, Kilgannon JH, Lasa JJ, Hazinski MF. Pediatric Post–Cardiac Arrest Care: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation 2019; 140:e194-e233. [DOI: 10.1161/cir.0000000000000697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Successful resuscitation from cardiac arrest results in a post–cardiac arrest syndrome, which can evolve in the days to weeks after return of sustained circulation. The components of post–cardiac arrest syndrome are brain injury, myocardial dysfunction, systemic ischemia/reperfusion response, and persistent precipitating pathophysiology. Pediatric post–cardiac arrest care focuses on anticipating, identifying, and treating this complex physiology to improve survival and neurological outcomes. This scientific statement on post–cardiac arrest care is the result of a consensus process that included pediatric and adult emergency medicine, critical care, cardiac critical care, cardiology, neurology, and nursing specialists who analyzed the past 20 years of pediatric cardiac arrest, adult cardiac arrest, and pediatric critical illness peer-reviewed published literature. The statement summarizes the epidemiology, pathophysiology, management, and prognostication after return of sustained circulation after cardiac arrest, and it provides consensus on the current evidence supporting elements of pediatric post–cardiac arrest care.
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Ihara S, Sakurai A, Kinoshita K, Yamaguchi J, Sugita A. Amplitude-Integrated Electroencephalography and Brain Oxygenation for Postcardiac Arrest Patients with Targeted Temperature Management. Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag 2019; 9:209-215. [PMID: 31381485 PMCID: PMC6744943 DOI: 10.1089/ther.2018.0051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Brain injury is the most common cause of death postcardiac arrest. Amplitude-integrated electroencephalography (aEEG) is suggested to be useful in the prognostication in cases of postcardiac arrest brain injury. However, combined monitoring with aEEG and regional oxygen saturation (rSO2) for postcardiac arrest syndrome (PCAS) patients to improve accuracy has not been reported. The purpose of this prospective observational study is to assess the usefulness of aEEG and rSO2 for PCAS patients with targeted temperature management (TTM) to predict neurological outcome and possibly identify the pathophysiology of postcardiac arrest brain injury. PCAS patients with TTM at 34°C were monitored by aEEG and rSO2 immediately after admission to the intensive care unit and evaluated at the start of monitoring, and 24 and 48 hours after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC). Patients were divided into two groups according to electroencephalography (EEG) pattern: a continuous EEG (C) pattern group and a noncontinuous EEG (NC) pattern group. Patients with C pattern had a significantly more favorable neurologic outcome compared with patients with an NC pattern at each point in time. No significant difference in rSO2 values was observed between the C pattern and the NC pattern at any time point. Variation coefficient at rSO2 in the NC group was significantly greater than that in the C group from the start of the monitoring to 24 hours. aEEG is useful in predicting outcome for PCAS patients whereas rSO2 is not.
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- Shingo Ihara
- Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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- Division of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Medicine, Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Kotini-Shah P, Camp-Rogers TR, Swor RA, Sawyer KN. An Assessment of Emergency Department Post-Cardiac Arrest Care Variation in Michigan. Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag 2015; 6:17-22. [PMID: 26654317 DOI: 10.1089/ther.2015.0021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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Implementation of postarrest care by individual physicians and systems has been slow. Deadoption, or discontinuation of therapeutic hypothermia (TH) treatment targets, after recent prospective study results has not been well reported. This study assesses practices in the early stages of postarrest care across emergency departments (EDs) in Michigan. A 27-question Internet-based survey was distributed to EDs in Michigan in September 2013. To assess changes in practice after publication of Nielsen et al., we sent follow-up questions to all original respondents a year later. Observational data and descriptive statistics are reported. From the 142 EDs identified, we excluded critical access hospitals (N = 35), free standing EDs (N = 7), EDs that transfer critical patients to tertiary centers (N = 21), and exclusive children's hospitals (N = 3). Of the remaining 76 hospitals, we received 64 (84.2%) responses. We identified 15 respondents with a protocol to specifically initiate ED TH and transfer patients to a higher level of care. The 49 remaining were mostly teaching institutions (N = 34, 69%) and gave the ED physician the ability to initiate TH (N = 40, 82%). On follow-up 12 months later, we received 33/40 (83%) responses, of which only 5 indicated formal or informal change in TH practice or target temperature. There is substantial variation in the practice of ED postarrest care and initiation of TH across the state of Michigan, but few ED TH protocols were changed in a year's time. The consequences of postarrest treatment variability at the state and ED levels are likely under-recognized as an influence on outcome variation between regions.
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- Pavitra Kotini-Shah
- 1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago , Chicago, Illinois
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- 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at Houston , Houston, Texas
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- 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital , Royal Oak, Michigan
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- 3 Department of Emergency Medicine, William Beaumont Hospital , Royal Oak, Michigan
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Amorim E, Rittenberger JC, Baldwin ME, Callaway CW, Popescu A. Malignant EEG patterns in cardiac arrest patients treated with targeted temperature management who survive to hospital discharge. Resuscitation 2015; 90:127-32. [PMID: 25779006 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2015.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2014] [Revised: 03/01/2015] [Accepted: 03/06/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cardiac arrest patients treated with targeted temperature management (TTM) have improved neurological outcomes, however mortality remains high. EEG monitoring improves detection of malignant EEG patterns (MEPs), however their prevalence in patients surviving to hospital discharge is unknown. DESIGN/METHODS We examined consecutive cardiac arrest subjects who received TTM and continuous EEG monitoring at one academic center. Only subjects surviving to hospital discharge were included in the analysis. MEPs were defined as seizures, status epilepticus, myoclonic status epilepticus, or generalized periodic discharges. Subjects with suppression-burst (SB) without concomitant MEPs were categorized as having a "pure" SB pattern. Demographic, survival, hospital discharge disposition, and neurological function data were recorded retrospectively. Outcomes were assessed using the Glasgow-Pittsburgh Cerebral Performance Category (CPC). A CPC score of 1-2 was considered "good" neurological function, and a CPC of 3-4 "poor". RESULTS Of 364 admissions due to cardiac arrest screened, 120 (29.9%) survived to hospital discharge and met inclusion criteria. MEPs and pure SB were observed in 19 (15.8%) and 22 (18.3%) survivors respectively. Two subjects with MEP and eight subjects with pure SB had good neurological function at discharge, however all SB cases were confounded by the use of anesthetic agents. Presence of MEPs was not an independent predictor of poor neurological function (p=0.1). CONCLUSIONS MEPs are common among cardiac arrest patients treated with induced hypothermia who survive to hospital discharge. Poor neurological function at discharge was not associated with MEPs. Prospective studies assessing the role of EEG monitoring in cardiac arrest prognostication are warranted.
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- Edilberto Amorim
- Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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- Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
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Wares CM, Heffner AC, Ward SL, Pearson DA. ED prognostication of comatose cardiac arrest patients undergoing therapeutic hypothermia is unreliable. Am J Emerg Med 2015; 33:802-6. [PMID: 25858162 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajem.2014.12.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2014] [Revised: 12/19/2014] [Accepted: 12/21/2014] [Indexed: 10/23/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) improves patient survival with good neurologic outcome after cardiac arrest. The value of early clinician prognostication in the emergency department (ED) has not been studied in this patient population. OBJECTIVE To determine if physicians can accurately predict survival and neurologic outcome at hospital discharge of resuscitated, comatose out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients treated in a post-cardiac arrest clinical pathway that included TH. METHODS This was a prospective, observational study conducted at a tertiary referral center. Participants were physicians involved in the resuscitation of OHCA patients treated with a clinical pathway that included TH. Immediately after patient resuscitation in the ED, physicians recorded their prediction of patient survival and neurologic outcome on a standardized questionnaire. Neurologic outcome was assessed by the cerebral performance category. RESULTS Forty-two physicians completed questionnaires on 17 patients enrolled from October 2009 to March 2010. Sensitivity and specificity of physician prediction of patient survival were 0.67 (95% confidence interval [CI], 0.45-0.83) and 0.82 (95% CI, 0.59-0.94), respectively, with an area under the curve of 0.74 (95% CI, 0.61-0.88), a positive likelihood ratio (+LR) of 3.72 (95% CI, 1.30-11.02), and a -LR of 0.40 (95% CI, 0.21-0.77). Sensitivity and specificity of physician prediction of good neurologic outcome were 0.40 (95% CI, 0.20-0.64) and 0.69 (95% CI, 0.50-0.84), respectively, with an area under the curve of 0.55 (95% CI, 0.39-0.70), a +LR of 1.29 (95% CI, 0.56-3.03), and a -LR of 0.87 (95% CI, 0.53-1.41). CONCLUSIONS Physicians poorly prognosticate both survival and neurologic outcome in comatose OHCA patients undergoing TH. Premature prognostication in the ED is unreliable and should be avoided.
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- Catherine M Wares
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC.
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC; Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Critical Care, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
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- Dickson Advanced Analytics Group, Carolinas Health Care System, Charlotte, NC
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC
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Awakening and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in cardiac arrest survivors treated with therapeutic hypothermia*. Crit Care Med 2015; 42:2493-9. [PMID: 25121961 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0000000000000540] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To characterize the prevalence of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, as well as the time to awakening, short-term neurologic outcomes, and cause of death in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrests treated with therapeutic hypothermia. DESIGN Single center, prospective observational cohort study of consecutive patients with out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrests. SETTING Academic tertiary care hospital and level one trauma center in Minneapolis, MN. PATIENTS Adults with witnessed, nontraumatic, out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrests regardless of initial electrocardiographic rhythm with return of spontaneous circulation who were admitted to an ICU. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS The study cohort included 154 comatose survivors of witnessed out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrests who were admitted to an ICU during the 54-month study period. One hundred eighteen patients (77%) were treated with therapeutic hypothermia. The mean age was 59 years, 104 (68%) were men, and 83 (54%) had an initial rhythm of ventricular tachycardia or fibrillation. Only eight of all 78 patients (10%) who died qualified as brain dead; and 81% of all patients (63 of 78) who died did so after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. Twenty of 56 comatose survivors (32%) treated with hypothermia who awoke (as defined by Glasgow Motor Score of 6) and had good neurologic outcomes (defined as Cerebral Performance Category 1-2) did so after 72 hours. CONCLUSIONS Our study supports delaying prognostication and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment to beyond 72 hours in cases treated with therapeutic hypothermia. Larger multicenter prospective studies are needed to better define the most appropriate time frame for prognostication in comatose cardiac arrest survivors treated with therapeutic hypothermia. These data are also consistent with the notion that a majority of out-of-hospital cardiopulmonary arrest survivors die after a decision to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment and that very few of these survivors progress to brain death.
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Friberg H, Cronberg T. Prognostication after cardiac arrest. Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 2013; 27:359-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpa.2013.06.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2013] [Accepted: 06/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Características clínicas, pronóstico vital y funcional de los pacientes supervivientes a una muerte súbita extrahospitalaria ingresados en cinco unidades de cuidados intensivos cardiológicos. Rev Esp Cardiol 2013. [DOI: 10.1016/j.recesp.2013.03.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Loma-Osorio P, Aboal J, Sanz M, Caballero Á, Vila M, Lorente V, Sánchez-Salado JC, Sionis A, Curós A, Lidón RM. Clinical characteristics and vital and functional prognosis of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survivors admitted to five cardiac intensive care units. REVISTA ESPANOLA DE CARDIOLOGIA (ENGLISH ED.) 2013; 66:623-628. [PMID: 24776330 DOI: 10.1016/j.rec.2013.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/03/2012] [Accepted: 03/01/2013] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest constitute an increasing patient population in cardiac intensive care units. Our aim was to characterize these patients and determine their vital and functional prognosis in accordance with the latest evidence. METHODS A multicenter, prospective register was constructed with information from patients admitted to 5 cardiac intensive care units from January 2010 through January 2012 with a diagnosis of resuscitated out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The information included clinical status, cardiac arrest characteristics, in-hospital course, and vital and neurologic status at discharge and at 6 months. RESULTS A total of 204 patients were included. In 64% of cases, a first shockable rhythm was identified. The time to return of spontaneous circulation was 29 (18) min. An etiologic diagnosis was made in 86% of patients; 44% were discharged with no neurologic sequelae; 40% died in the hospital. At 6 months, 79% of survivors at discharge were still alive and neurologically intact with minimal sequelae. Short resuscitation time, first recorded rhythm, pH on admission >7.1, absence of shock, and use of hypothermia were the independent variables associated with a good neurologic prognosis. CONCLUSIONS Half the patients who recovered from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest had good neurologic prognosis at discharge, and 79% of survivors were alive and neurologically intact after 6 months of follow-up.
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- Pablo Loma-Osorio
- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain.
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Josep Trueta, Girona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Bellvitge, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
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- Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain
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Clinical review: Continuous and simplified electroencephalography to monitor brain recovery after cardiac arrest. Crit Care 2013; 17:233. [PMID: 23876221 PMCID: PMC4056658 DOI: 10.1186/cc12699] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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There has been a dramatic change in hospital care of cardiac arrest survivors in recent years, including the use of target temperature management (hypothermia). Clinical signs of recovery or deterioration, which previously could be observed, are now concealed by sedation, analgesia, and muscle paralysis. Seizures are common after cardiac arrest, but few centers can offer high-quality electroencephalography (EEG) monitoring around the clock. This is due primarily to its complexity and lack of resources but also to uncertainty regarding the clinical value of monitoring EEG and of treating post-ischemic electrographic seizures. Thanks to technical advances in recent years, EEG monitoring has become more available. Large amounts of EEG data can be linked within a hospital or between neighboring hospitals for expert opinion. Continuous EEG (cEEG) monitoring provides dynamic information and can be used to assess the evolution of EEG patterns and to detect seizures. cEEG can be made more simple by reducing the number of electrodes and by adding trend analysis to the original EEG curves. In our version of simplified cEEG, we combine a reduced montage, displaying two channels of the original EEG, with amplitude-integrated EEG trend curves (aEEG). This is a convenient method to monitor cerebral function in comatose patients after cardiac arrest but has yet to be validated against the gold standard, a multichannel cEEG. We recently proposed a simplified system for interpreting EEG rhythms after cardiac arrest, defining four major EEG patterns. In this topical review, we will discuss cEEG to monitor brain function after cardiac arrest in general and how a simplified cEEG, with a reduced number of electrodes and trend analysis, may facilitate and improve care.
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Topjian AA, Berg RA, Bierens JJLM, Branche CM, Clark RS, Friberg H, Hoedemaekers CWE, Holzer M, Katz LM, Knape JTA, Kochanek PM, Nadkarni V, van der Hoeven JG, Warner DS. Brain resuscitation in the drowning victim. Neurocrit Care 2013; 17:441-67. [PMID: 22956050 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9747-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Drowning is a leading cause of accidental death. Survivors may sustain severe neurologic morbidity. There is negligible research specific to brain injury in drowning making current clinical management non-specific to this disorder. This review represents an evidence-based consensus effort to provide recommendations for management and investigation of the drowning victim. Epidemiology, brain-oriented prehospital and intensive care, therapeutic hypothermia, neuroimaging/monitoring, biomarkers, and neuroresuscitative pharmacology are addressed. When cardiac arrest is present, chest compressions with rescue breathing are recommended due to the asphyxial insult. In the comatose patient with restoration of spontaneous circulation, hypoxemia and hyperoxemia should be avoided, hyperthermia treated, and induced hypothermia (32-34 °C) considered. Arterial hypotension/hypertension should be recognized and treated. Prevent hypoglycemia and treat hyperglycemia. Treat clinical seizures and consider treating non-convulsive status epilepticus. Serial neurologic examinations should be provided. Brain imaging and serial biomarker measurement may aid prognostication. Continuous electroencephalography and N20 somatosensory evoked potential monitoring may be considered. Serial biomarker measurement (e.g., neuron specific enolase) may aid prognostication. There is insufficient evidence to recommend use of any specific brain-oriented neuroresuscitative pharmacologic therapy other than that required to restore and maintain normal physiology. Following initial stabilization, victims should be transferred to centers with expertise in age-specific post-resuscitation neurocritical care. Care should be documented, reviewed, and quality improvement assessment performed. Preclinical research should focus on models of asphyxial cardiac arrest. Clinical research should focus on improved cardiopulmonary resuscitation, re-oxygenation/reperfusion strategies, therapeutic hypothermia, neuroprotection, neurorehabilitation, and consideration of drowning in advances made in treatment of other central nervous system disorders.
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- Alexis A Topjian
- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Suite 7C23, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Blood pH is a useful indicator for initiation of therapeutic hypothermia in the early phase of resuscitation after comatose cardiac arrest: a retrospective study. J Emerg Med 2013; 45:57-64. [PMID: 23623286 DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2012.11.095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2012] [Revised: 07/10/2012] [Accepted: 11/04/2012] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia (TH) is one of the key treatments after cardiac arrest (CA). Selection of post-CA patients for TH remains problematic, as there are no clinically validated tools to determine who might benefit from the therapy. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate retrospectively whether laboratory findings or other patient data obtained during the early phase of hospital admission could be correlated with neurological outcome after TH in comatose survivors of CA. METHODS Medical charts of witnessed CA patients admitted between June 2003 and July 2009 who were treated with TH were reviewed retrospectively. The subjects were grouped based on their cerebral performance category (CPC) 6 months after CA, as either good recovery (GR) for CPC 1-2 or non-good recovery (non-GR) for CPC 3-5. The following well-known determinants of outcome obtained during the early phase of hospital admission were evaluated: age, gender, body mass index, cardiac origin, presence of ventricular fibrillation (VF), time from collapse to cardiopulmonary resuscitation, time from collapse to return of spontaneous circulation, body temperature, arterial blood gases, and blood test results. RESULTS We analyzed a total of 50 (25 GR and 25 non-GR) patients. Multivariate logistic analysis showed that initial heart rhythm and pH levels were significantly higher in the GR group than in the non-GR group (ventricular tachycardia/VF rate: p = 0.055, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.768-84.272, odds ratio [OR] 8.047; pH: 7.155 ± 0.139 vs. 6.895 ± 0.100, respectively, p < 0.001, 95% CI 1.838-25.827; OR 6.89). CONCLUSION These results imply that in addition to initial heart rhythm, pH level may be a good candidate for neurological outcome predictor even though previous research has found no correlation between initial pH value and neurological outcome.
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Westhall E, Rundgren M, Lilja G, Friberg H, Cronberg T. Postanoxic status epilepticus can be identified and treatment guided successfully by continuous electroencephalography. Ther Hypothermia Temp Manag 2013; 3:84-7. [PMID: 24837799 DOI: 10.1089/ther.2013.0002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Prognostication after cardiac arrest and therapeutic hypothermia is challenging. Recent data indicate that a subgroup of patients with postanoxic status epilepticus may recover. We describe a case of postanoxic status epilepticus with good outcome where a multimodal prognostic strategy motivated active and prolonged treatment. Our patient was a 61-year-old woman resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, treated with hypothermia, and monitored with continuous electroencephalography (EEG). Shortly after rewarming, 44 hours after cardiac arrest, electrographic status epilepticus developed and was manifested clinically by myoclonic seizures several hours later. Treatment was guided by continuous simplified EEG monitoring. Conventional antiepileptics were ineffective, and prolonged sedation was necessary to prevent recurrence. Magnetic resonance imaging, somatosensory evoked potentials, and repeated measurements of neuron-specific enolase were unremarkable and did not indicate a poor prognosis. Rather, the EEG characteristics suggested a potential for recovery, and therefore the patient was actively treated until recovery 3 weeks later. At follow-up after 4.5 months, she had only minor neurological sequels. We conclude that a favorable neurological outcome is possible despite prolonged postanoxic status epilepticus. A multimodal strategy for prognostication may help identify treatable cases. Continuous EEG monitoring is an important tool to detect and guide treatment of postanoxic status epilepticus.
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- Erik Westhall
- 1 Division of Clinical Neurophysiology, Lund University , Lund, Sweden
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Søholm H, Wachtell K, Nielsen SL, Bro-Jeppesen J, Pedersen F, Wanscher M, Boesgaard S, Møller JE, Hassager C, Kjaergaard J. Tertiary centres have improved survival compared to other hospitals in the Copenhagen area after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2013; 84:162-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2012.06.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Revised: 06/19/2012] [Accepted: 06/22/2012] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Friberg H, Rundgren M, Westhall E, Nielsen N, Cronberg T. Continuous evaluation of neurological prognosis after cardiac arrest. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2013; 57:6-15. [PMID: 22834632 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2012.02736.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 06/01/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Post-resuscitation care has changed in the last decade, and outcome after cardiac arrest has improved, thanks to several combined measures. Induced hypothermia has shown a treatment benefit in two randomized trials, but some doubts remain. General care has improved, including the use of emergency coronary intervention. Assessment of neurological function and prognosis in comatose cardiac arrest patient is challenging, especially when treated with hypothermia. In this review, we evaluate the recent literature and discuss the available evidence for prognostication after cardiac arrest in the era of temperature management. Relevant literature was identified searching PubMed and reading published papers in the field, but no standardized search strategy was used. The complexity of predicting outcome after cardiac arrest and induced hypothermia is recognized in the literature, and no single test can predict a poor prognosis with absolute certainty. A clinical neurological examination is still the gold standard, but the results need careful interpretation because many patients are affected by sedatives and by hypothermia. Common adjuncts include neurophysiology, brain imaging and biomarkers, and a multimodal strategy is generally recommended. Current guidelines for prediction of outcome after cardiac arrest and induced hypothermia are not sufficient. Based on our expert opinion, we suggest a multimodal approach with a continuous evaluation of prognosis based on repeated neurological examinations and electroencephalography. Somatosensory-evoked potential is an established method to help determine a poor outcome and is recommended, whereas biomarkers and magnetic resonance imaging are promising adjuncts. We recommend that a decisive evaluation of prognosis is performed at 72 h after normothermia or later in a patient free of sedative and analgetic drugs.
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- H Friberg
- Department of Intensive and Perioperative Care, Skåne University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.
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Rothstein TL. Therapeutic hypothermia and reliability of somatosensory evoked potentials in predicting outcome after cardiopulmonary arrest. Neurocrit Care 2012; 17:146-9. [PMID: 22547039 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-012-9696-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The loss of the N20 component on testing median somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) has been established as the most reliable indicator of unfavorable prognosis in post-cardiopulmonary arrest patients. With the intervention of therapeutic hypothermia in the management of patients who remain comatose following cardiopulmonary arrest that association is now in dispute. Abandoning SSEP as a key prognostic indicator of neurologic outcome would be a serious loss and cannot be justified.
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- Ted Laurence Rothstein
- Department of Neurology, George Washington University, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA.
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Bouwes A, Binnekade JM, Kuiper MA, Bosch FH, Zandstra DF, Toornvliet AC, Biemond HS, Kors BM, Koelman JH, Verbeek MM, Weinstein HC, Hijdra A, Horn J. Prognosis of coma after therapeutic hypothermia: A prospective cohort study. Ann Neurol 2012; 71:206-12. [DOI: 10.1002/ana.22632] [Citation(s) in RCA: 271] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Samaniego EA, Mlynash M, Caulfield AF, Eyngorn I, Wijman CAC. Sedation confounds outcome prediction in cardiac arrest survivors treated with hypothermia. Neurocrit Care 2012; 15:113-9. [PMID: 20680517 DOI: 10.1007/s12028-010-9412-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 212] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Therapeutic hypothermia is commonly used in comatose survivors' post-cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). It is unknown whether outcome predictors perform accurately after hypothermia treatment. METHODS Post-CPR comatose survivors were prospectively enrolled. Six outcome predictors [pupillary and corneal reflexes, motor response to pain, and somatosensory-evoked potentials (SSEP) >72 h; status myoclonus, and serum neuron-specific enolase (NSE) levels <72 h] were systematically recorded. Poor outcome was defined as death or vegetative state at 3 months. Patients were considered "sedated" if they received any sedative drugs ≤ 12 h prior the 72 h neurological assessment. RESULTS Of 85 prospectively enrolled patients, 53 (62%) underwent hypothermia. Furthermore, 53 of the 85 patients (62%) had a poor outcome. Baseline characteristics did not differ between the hypothermia and normothermia groups. Sedative drugs at 72 h were used in 62 (73%) patients overall, and more frequently in hypothermia than in normothermia patients: 83 versus 60% (P = 0.02). Status myoclonus <72 h, absent cortical responses by SSEPs >72 h, and absent pupillary reflexes >72 h predicted poor outcome with a 100% specificity both in hypothermia and normothermia patients. In contrast, absent corneal reflexes >72 h, motor response extensor or absent >72 h, and peak NSE >33 ng/ml <72 h predicted poor outcome with 100% specificity only in non-sedated patients, irrespective of prior treatment with hypothermia. CONCLUSIONS Sedative medications are commonly used in proximity of the 72-h neurological examination in comatose CPR survivors and are an important prognostication confounder. Patients treated with hypothermia are more likely to receive sedation than those who are not treated with hypothermia.
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- Edgar A Samaniego
- Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford University Medical Center, 780 Welch Road, Suite 205, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.
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Adverse events and their relation to mortality in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia*. Crit Care Med 2011; 39:57-64. [DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181fa4301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 184] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Hamelin S, Delnard N, Cneude F, Debillon T, Vercueil L. Influence of hypothermia on the prognostic value of early EEG in full-term neonates with hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy. Neurophysiol Clin 2010; 41:19-27. [PMID: 21316017 DOI: 10.1016/j.neucli.2010.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2010] [Revised: 09/29/2010] [Accepted: 11/15/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic value of early electroencephalograms (EEG) in full-term neonates suffering from hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) exposed to whole-body hypothermia (cooled group), compared to neonates treated conventionally (control group). METHODS The study included all term neonates born at Grenoble Hospital between 2000 and 2006 with symptoms of HIE. The first two EEGs were reviewed retrospectively and classified according to current electrophysiological criteria. In the cooled group, EEGs were recorded with a mean body temperature of 33°C. Neurological outcome was correlated with EEG pattern. RESULTS An EEG inactive or paroxysmal pattern was associated with death in 60% of the controls, while all survivors had neurological sequels. In the cooled group, this EEG pattern was only predictive of death in 40% while survivors had normal examination at 1 year of age. Mild abnormalities on the first EEG correlated with a good prognosis in both groups. The second EEG had a high predictive value, particularly in the cooled group. Persistence of inactivity at 3 days after birth was always associated with death. CONCLUSIONS After HIE, the first two EEGs are good prognostic indicators, also in the cooled group. Strong discontinuity in the EEG observed on the first hours after hypothermia induction can be associated with a good outcome. SIGNIFICANCE Early Stage 4 EEGs recorded during the hypothermia may not always indicate a poor prognosis in HIE.
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- S Hamelin
- Neurophysiology, Grenoble University Hospital, 38043 Grenoble, France.
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Continuous amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram predicts outcome in hypothermia-treated cardiac arrest patients. Crit Care Med 2010; 38:1838-44. [PMID: 20562694 DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181eaa1e7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 195] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To assess the prognostic value of continuous amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram in comatose survivors after cardiac arrest and treated with hypothermia. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING General intensive care unit at a university hospital. PATIENTS Comatose patients after cardiac arrest and treated with hypothermia. INTERVENTIONS Patients were sedated and continuously monitored using an amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram. Monitoring was commenced on arrival in the intensive care unit and continued until recovery of consciousness, death, or 120 hrs after cardiac arrest. The amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram was interpreted together with the original electroencephalogram and analyzed without knowledge of the patient's clinical status. The amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram patterns at start of registration and at normothermia and the transitions of the amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram patterns over time were correlated to outcome. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS A total of 111 consecutive patients were assessed; 11 patients were not included because of technical reasons and five were excluded because of death before normothermia. Ninety-five patients remained; 57 (60%) eventually regained consciousness, of whom 49 (52%) lived an independent life at 6 months. Thirty-one patients (33%) at start of registration and 62 patients (65%) at normothermia had a continuous electroencephalogram pattern, and this was strongly associated with recovery of consciousness (29/31 [90%] and 54/62 [87%]). A suppression-burst pattern was always transient and patients with suppression-burst at any time remained in coma until death. An initial flat pattern was registered in 47 patients, but this had no prognostic value. Electrographic status epilepticus was a common finding (26/95 patients [27%]) and two types of electrographic status epilepticus were identified: one developed from suppression-burst and one developed from a continuous background. Two patients from the latter group regained consciousness. CONCLUSIONS Continuous amplitude-integrated electroencephalogram adds valuable early positive and negative prognostic information in comatose survivors after cardiac arrest. We identified two types of postanoxic electrographic status epilepticus, which is a novel finding with possible therapeutic implications.
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- Michael Holzer
- Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
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Steffen IG, Hasper D, Ploner CJ, Schefold JC, Dietz E, Martens F, Nee J, Krueger A, Jörres A, Storm C. Mild therapeutic hypothermia alters neuron specific enolase as an outcome predictor after resuscitation: 97 prospective hypothermia patients compared to 133 historical non-hypothermia patients. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2010; 14:R69. [PMID: 20403168 PMCID: PMC2887191 DOI: 10.1186/cc8975] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2010] [Revised: 03/22/2010] [Accepted: 04/19/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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INTRODUCTION Neuron specific enolase (NSE) has been proven effective in predicting neurological outcome after cardiac arrest with a current cut off recommendation of 33 microg/l. However, most of the corresponding studies were conducted before the introduction of mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH). Therefore we conducted a study investigating the association between NSE and neurological outcome in patients treated with MTH. METHODS In this prospective observational cohort study the data of patients after cardiac arrest receiving MTH (n = 97) were consecutively collected and compared with a retrospective non-hypothermia (NH) group (n = 133). Serum NSE was measured 72 hours after admission to ICU. Neurological outcome was classified according to the Pittsburgh cerebral performance category (CPC 1 to 5) at ICU discharge. RESULTS NSE serum levels were significantly lower under MTH compared to NH in univariate analysis. However, in a linear regression model NSE was affected significantly by time to return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC) and ventricular fibrillation rhythm but not by MTH. The model for neurological outcome identified NSE, NSE*MTH (interaction) as well as time to ROSC as significant predictors. Receiver Operating Characteristic (ROC) analysis revealed a higher cutoff value for unfavourable outcome (CPC 3 to 5) with a specificity of 100% in the hypothermia group (78.9 microg/l) compared to the NH group (26.9 microg/l). CONCLUSIONS Recommended cutoff levels for NSE 72 hours after ROSC do not reliably predict poor neurological outcome in cardiac arrest patients treated with MTH. Prospective multicentre trials are required to re-evaluate NSE cutoff values for the prediction of neurological outcome in patients treated with MTH.
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- Ingo G Steffen
- Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Augustenburgerplatz 1, Berlin, Germany.
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Bouwes A, Kuiper MA, Hijdra A, Horn J. Induced hypothermia and determination of neurological outcome after CPR in ICUs in the Netherlands: Results of a survey. Resuscitation 2010; 81:393-7. [DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.12.032] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2009] [Revised: 11/19/2009] [Accepted: 12/30/2009] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Nolan JP, Neumar RW, Adrie C, Aibiki M, Berg RA, Bbttiger BW, Callaway C, Clark RS, Geocadin RG, Jauch EC, Kern KB, Laurent I, Longstreth W, Merchant RM, Morley P, Morrison LJ, Nadkarni V, Peberdy MA, Rivers EP, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Sellke FW, Spaulding C, Sunde K, Hoek TV. Post-cardiac arrest syndrome: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognostication: A Scientific Statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee; the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative, and Critical Care; the Council on Clinical Cardiology; the Council on Stroke (Part II). Int Emerg Nurs 2010; 18:8-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2009.07.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The bispectral index and suppression ratio are very early predictors of neurological outcome during therapeutic hypothermia after cardiac arrest. Intensive Care Med 2009; 36:281-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s00134-009-1691-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/20/2009] [Accepted: 08/28/2009] [Indexed: 01/24/2023]
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Studies in hypothermia-treated cardiac arrest patients are needed to establish the accuracy of proposed outcome predictors*. Crit Care Med 2009; 37:2485-6. [DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181ad4e8f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Friedman D, Claassen J, Hirsch LJ. Continuous electroencephalogram monitoring in the intensive care unit. Anesth Analg 2009; 109:506-23. [PMID: 19608827 DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e3181a9d8b5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 186] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Because of recent technical advances, it is now possible to record and monitor the continuous digital electroencephalogram (EEG) of many critically ill patients simultaneously. Continuous EEG monitoring (cEEG) provides dynamic information about brain function that permits early detection of changes in neurologic status, which is especially useful when the clinical examination is limited. Nonconvulsive seizures are common in comatose critically ill patients and can have multiple negative effects on the injured brain. The majority of seizures in these patients cannot be detected without cEEG. cEEG monitoring is most commonly used to detect and guide treatment of nonconvulsive seizures, including after convulsive status epilepticus. In addition, cEEG is used to guide management of pharmacological coma for treatment of increased intracranial pressure. An emerging application for cEEG is to detect new or worsening brain ischemia in patients at high risk, especially those with subarachnoid hemorrhage. Improving quantitative EEG software is helping to make it feasible for cEEG (using full scalp coverage) to provide continuous information about changes in brain function in real time at the bedside and to alert clinicians to any acute brain event, including seizures, ischemia, increasing intracranial pressure, hemorrhage, and even systemic abnormalities affecting the brain, such as hypoxia, hypotension, acidosis, and others. Monitoring using only a few electrodes or using full scalp coverage, but without expert review of the raw EEG, must be done with extreme caution as false positives and false negatives are common. Intracranial EEG recording is being performed in a few centers to better detect seizures, ischemia, and peri-injury depolarizations, all of which may contribute to secondary injury. When cEEG is combined with individualized, physiologically driven decision making via multimodality brain monitoring, intensivists can identify when the brain is at risk for injury or when neuronal injury is already occurring and intervene before there is permanent damage. The exact role and cost-effectiveness of cEEG at the current time remains unclear, but we believe it has significant potential to improve neurologic outcomes in a variety of settings.
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- Daniel Friedman
- Department of Neurology, Comprehensive Epilepsy Center, Columbia University, NewYork City, New York, USA
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Nolan JP, Neumar RW, Adrie C, Aibiki M, Berg RA, Bbttiger BW, Callaway C, Clark RSB, Geocadin RG, Jauch EC, Kern KB, Laurent I, Longstreth WT, Merchant RM, Morley P, Morrison LJ, Nadkarni V, Peberdy MA, Rivers EP, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Sellke FW, Spaulding C, Sunde K, Hoek TV. Post-cardiac arrest syndrome: Epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognostication: A scientific statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee; the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative, and Critical Care; the Council on Clinical Cardiology; the Council on Stroke (Part 1). Int Emerg Nurs 2009; 17:203-25. [PMID: 19782333 DOI: 10.1016/j.ienj.2009.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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AIM OF THE REVIEW To review the epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment and prognostication in relation to the post-cardiac arrest syndrome. METHODS Relevant articles were identified using PubMed, EMBASE and an American Heart Association EndNote master resuscitation reference library, supplemented by hand searches of key papers. Writing groups comprising international experts were assigned to each section. Drafts of the document were circulated to all authors for comment and amendment. RESULTS The 4 key components of post-cardiac arrest syndrome were identified as (1) post-cardiac arrest brain injury, (2) post-cardiac arrest myocardial dysfunction, (3) systemic ischaemia/reperfusion response, and (4) persistent precipitating pathology. CONCLUSIONS A growing body of knowledge suggests that the individual components of the postcardiac arrest syndrome are potentially treatable.
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- Jerry P Nolan
- Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom.
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Castrejón S, Cortés M, Salto ML, Benittez LC, Rubio R, Juárez M, López de Sá E, Bueno H, Sánchez PL, Fernández Avilés F. Mejora del pronóstico tras parada cardiorrespiratoria de causa cardiaca mediante el empleo de hipotermia moderada: comparación con un grupo control. Rev Esp Cardiol 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/s0300-8932(09)71686-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Castrejón S, Cortés M, Salto ML, Benittez LC, Rubio R, Juárez M, de Sá EL, Bueno H, Sánchez PL, Avilés FF. Improved Prognosis After Using Mild Hypothermia to Treat Cardiorespiratory Arrest Due to a Cardiac Cause: Comparison With a Control Group. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2009; 62:733-41. [DOI: 10.1016/s1885-5857(09)72353-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Schefold JC, Storm C, Krüger A, Ploner CJ, Hasper D. The Glasgow Coma Score is a predictor of good outcome in cardiac arrest patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia. Resuscitation 2009; 80:658-61. [PMID: 19362767 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2009.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2008] [Revised: 02/05/2009] [Accepted: 03/05/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND With the recent introduction of therapeutic hypothermia the application of sedation becomes necessary in cardiac arrest patients. We therefore analysed the usefulness of the Glasgow coma score (GCS) for outcome prediction in survivors of cardiac arrest treated with therapeutic hypothermia. PATIENTS AND METHODS In a prospective observational study we identified 72 comatose patients admitted to our intensive care unit after cardiac arrest. All patients were treated with therapeutic hypothermia. After sedation stop the Glasgow coma scale (GCS) was recorded until day 4. Neurological outcome was assessed using the Pittsburgh cerebral performance category (CPC) score. RESULTS Forty-four of 72 patients (61%) were discharged with a favourable neurological outcome (CPC 1+2). GCS was significantly higher in patients with good outcome compared to patients with unfavourable outcome at every point in time after sedation stop (p<0.001). The value for prediction of good outcome with the highest accuracy was a GCS>4 at the first day after sedation stop (sensitivity 61%, PPV 90% and AUC 0.808) and GCS>6 in the following days (sensitivity 84%, PPV 92.5% and AUC 0.921 at day 4). In particular a score of >3 on the motor component of the GCS predicted good outcome with a specificity of 100% (sensitivity 43%) at the first day. CONCLUSIONS Our results indicate that monitoring of the GCS is a simple and reliable method for clinical outcome assessment in patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia. Thus, GCS monitoring remains a powerful tool to predict outcome of patients treated with therapeutic hypothermia.
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- Joerg C Schefold
- Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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Castrén M, Silfvast T, Rubertsson S, Niskanen M, Valsson F, Wanscher M, Sunde K. Scandinavian clinical practice guidelines for therapeutic hypothermia and post-resuscitation care after cardiac arrest. Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 2009; 53:280-8. [PMID: 19243313 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2008.01881.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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BACKGROUND AND AIM Sudden cardiac arrest survivors suffer from ischaemic brain injury that may lead to poor neurological outcome and death. The reperfusion injury that occurs is associated with damaging biochemical reactions, which are suppressed by mild therapeutic hypothermia (MTH). In several studies MTH has been proven to be safe, with few complications and improved survival, and is recommended by the International Liaison of Committee on Resuscitation. The aim of this paper is to recommend clinical practice guidelines for MTH treatment after cardiac arrest from the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine (SSAI). METHODS Relevant studies were identified after two consensus meetings of the SSAI Task Force on Therapeutic Hypothermia (SSAITFTH) and via literature search of the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials and Medline. Evidence was assessed and consensus opinion was used when high-grade evidence (Grade of Recommendation, GOR) was unavailable. A management strategy was developed as a consensus from the evidence and the protocols in the participating countries. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Although proven beneficial only for patients with initial ventricular fibrillation (GOR A), the SSAITFTH also recommend MTH after restored spontaneous circulation, if active treatment is chosen, in patients with initial pulseless electrical activity and asystole (GOR D). Normal ethical considerations, premorbid status, total anoxia time and general condition should decide whether active treatment is required or not. MTH should be part of a standardized treatment protocol, and initiated as early as possible after indication and treatment have been decided (GOR E). There is insufficient evidence to make definitive recommendations among techniques to induce MTH, and we do not know the optimal target temperature, duration of cooling and rewarming time. New studies are needed to address the question as to how MTH affects, for example, prognostic factors.
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- M Castrén
- Department of Clinical Science and Education, Södersjukhuset, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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The Nina, the Pinta, and heart rate variability: The search for prognostic indicators after cardiac arrest*. Crit Care Med 2009; 37:735-6. [DOI: 10.1097/ccm.0b013e3181959abc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Neumar RW, Nolan JP, Adrie C, Aibiki M, Berg RA, Böttiger BW, Callaway C, Clark RSB, Geocadin RG, Jauch EC, Kern KB, Laurent I, Longstreth WT, Merchant RM, Morley P, Morrison LJ, Nadkarni V, Peberdy MA, Rivers EP, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Sellke FW, Spaulding C, Sunde K, Vanden Hoek T. Post-cardiac arrest syndrome: epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognostication. A consensus statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, European Resuscitation Council, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Heart Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Asia, and the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa); the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee; the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative, and Critical Care; the Council on Clinical Cardiology; and the Stroke Council. Circulation 2008; 118:2452-83. [PMID: 18948368 DOI: 10.1161/circulationaha.108.190652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1076] [Impact Index Per Article: 67.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Nolan JP, Neumar RW, Adrie C, Aibiki M, Berg RA, Böttiger BW, Callaway C, Clark RSB, Geocadin RG, Jauch EC, Kern KB, Laurent I, Longstreth WT, Merchant RM, Morley P, Morrison LJ, Nadkarni V, Peberdy MA, Rivers EP, Rodriguez-Nunez A, Sellke FW, Spaulding C, Sunde K, Hoek TV. Post-cardiac arrest syndrome: epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognostication. A Scientific Statement from the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation; the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee; the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative, and Critical Care; the Council on Clinical Cardiology; the Council on Stroke. Resuscitation 2008; 79:350-79. [PMID: 18963350 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2008.09.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 697] [Impact Index Per Article: 43.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2008] [Accepted: 09/22/2008] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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AIM OF THE REVIEW To review the epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment and prognostication in relation to the post-cardiac arrest syndrome. METHODS Relevant articles were identified using PubMed, EMBASE and an American Heart Association EndNote master resuscitation reference library, supplemented by hand searches of key papers. Writing groups comprising international experts were assigned to each section. Drafts of the document were circulated to all authors for comment and amendment. RESULTS The 4 key components of post-cardiac arrest syndrome were identified as (1) post-cardiac arrest brain injury, (2) post-cardiac arrest myocardial dysfunction, (3) systemic ischaemia/reperfusion response, and (4) persistent precipitating pathology. CONCLUSIONS A growing body of knowledge suggests that the individual components of the post-cardiac arrest syndrome are potentially treatable.
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- Jerry P Nolan
- Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom.
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Storm C, Steffen I, Schefold JC, Krueger A, Oppert M, Jörres A, Hasper D. Mild therapeutic hypothermia shortens intensive care unit stay of survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared to historical controls. CRITICAL CARE : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CRITICAL CARE FORUM 2008; 12:R78. [PMID: 18554414 PMCID: PMC2481476 DOI: 10.1186/cc6925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2008] [Revised: 05/28/2008] [Accepted: 06/14/2008] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Introduction Persistent coma is a common finding after cardiac arrest and has profound ethical and economic implications. Evidence suggests that therapeutic hypothermia improves neurological outcome in these patients. In this analysis, we investigate whether therapeutic hypothermia influences the length of intensive care unit (ICU) stay and ventilator time in patients surviving out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Methods A prospective observational study with historical controls was conducted at our medical ICU. Fifty-two consecutive patients (median age 62.6 years, 43 males, 34 ventricular fibrillation) submitted to therapeutic hypothermia after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were included. They were compared with a historical cohort (n = 74, median age 63.8 years, 53 males, 43 ventricular fibrillation) treated in the era prior to hypothermia treatment. All patients received the same standard of care. Neurological outcome was assessed using the Pittsburgh cerebral performance category (CPC) score. Univariate analyses and multiple regression models were used. Results In survivors, therapeutic hypothermia and baseline disease severity (Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II [APACHE II] score) were both found to significantly influence ICU stay and ventilator time (all P < 0.01). ICU stay was shorter in survivors receiving therapeutic hypothermia (median 14 days [interquartile range (IQR) 8 to 26] versus 21 days [IQR 15 to 30] in the control group; P = 0.017). ICU length of stay and time on ventilator were prolonged in patients with CPC 3 or 4 compared with patients with CPC 1 or 2 (P = 0.003 and P = 0.034, respectively). Kaplan-Meier analysis showed improved probability for 1-year survival in the hypothermia group compared with the controls (log-rank test P = 0.013). Conclusion Therapeutic hypothermia was found to significantly shorten ICU stay and time of mechanical ventilation in survivors after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Moreover, profound improvements in both neurological outcome and 1-year survival were observed.
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- Christian Storm
- Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Department of Nephrology and Medical Intensive Care Medicine, Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin, Germany
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Geocadin RG, Koenig MA, Jia X, Stevens RD, Peberdy MA. Management of brain injury after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. Neurol Clin 2008; 26:487-506, ix. [PMID: 18514823 PMCID: PMC3074242 DOI: 10.1016/j.ncl.2008.03.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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The devastating neurologic injury in survivors of cardiac arrest has been recognized since the development of modern resuscitation techniques. After numerous failed clinical trials, two trials showed that induced mild hypothermia can ameliorate brain injury and improve survival and functional neurologic outcome in comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. This article provides a comprehensive review of the advances in the care of brain injury after cardiac arrest, with updates on the process of prognostication, the use of therapeutic hypothermia and adjunctive intensive care unit care for cardiac arrest survivors.
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- Romergryko G Geocadin
- Neurosciences Critical Care Division, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Gunn AJ, Wyatt JS, Whitelaw A, Barks J, Azzopardi D, Ballard R, Edwards AD, Ferriero DM, Gluckman PD, Polin RA, Robertson CM, Thoresen M. Therapeutic hypothermia changes the prognostic value of clinical evaluation of neonatal encephalopathy. J Pediatr 2008; 152:55-8, 58.e1. [PMID: 18154900 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2007.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 130] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2007] [Revised: 04/15/2007] [Accepted: 06/01/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate whether therapeutic hypothermia alters the prognostic value of clinical grading of neonatal encephalopathy. STUDY DESIGN This study was a secondary analysis of a multicenter study of 234 term infants with neonatal encephalopathy randomized to head cooling for 72 hours starting within 6 hours of birth, with rectal temperature maintained at 34.5 degrees C +/- 0.5 degrees C, followed by re-warming for 4 hours, or standard care at 37.0 degrees C +/- 0.5 degrees C. Severity of encephalopathy was measured pre-randomization and on day 4, after re-warming, in 177 infants; 31 infants died before day 4, and data were missing for 10 infants. The primary outcome was death or severe disability at 18 months of age. RESULTS Milder pre-randomization encephalopathy, greater improvement in encephalopathy from randomization to day 4, and cooling were associated with favorable outcome in multivariate binary logistic regression. Hypothermia did not affect severity of encephalopathy at day 4, however, in infants with moderate encephalopathy at day 4, those treated with hypothermia had a significantly higher rate of favorable outcome (31/45 infants, 69%, P = .006) compared with standard care (12/33, 36%). CONCLUSION Infants with moderate encephalopathy on day 4 may have a more favorable prognosis after hypothermia treatment than expected after standard care.
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- Alistair J Gunn
- Department of Physiology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Geocadin RG, Koenig MA, Stevens RD, Peberdy MA. Intensive care for brain injury after cardiac arrest: therapeutic hypothermia and related neuroprotective strategies. Crit Care Clin 2007; 22:619-36; abstract viii. [PMID: 17239747 DOI: 10.1016/j.ccc.2006.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Neurologic injury is the predominant cause of poor functional outcome in patients who are resuscitated from cardiac arrest. The management of these patients in the ICU can be challenging because of the paucity of effective therapies and lack of readily available diagnostic and prognostic tools. After several decades of failed pharmacologic neuroprotection trials, recent and well-designed randomized trials showed that therapeutic hypothermia is an effective neuroprotective measure in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest. Therapeutic hypothermia has been recommended by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation and has been incorporated in the American Heart Association CPR Guidelines. The American Academy of Neurology recently enhanced the delivery of care in survivors of cardiac arrest by providing evidence-based practice parameters on the prediction of poor outcome in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest, based on clinical evaluation and diagnostic tests. This article discusses these advances and their potential impact on the care provided in the ICU.
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- Romergryko G Geocadin
- Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Meyer 8-140, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.
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Sunde K, Pytte M, Jacobsen D, Mangschau A, Jensen LP, Smedsrud C, Draegni T, Steen PA. Implementation of a standardised treatment protocol for post resuscitation care after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. Resuscitation 2007; 73:29-39. [PMID: 17258378 DOI: 10.1016/j.resuscitation.2006.08.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 652] [Impact Index Per Article: 38.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2006] [Revised: 08/10/2006] [Accepted: 08/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Mortality among patients admitted to hospital after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is high. Based on recent scientific evidence with a main goal of improving survival, we introduced and implemented a standardised post resuscitation protocol focusing on vital organ function including therapeutic hypothermia, percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), control of haemodynamics, blood glucose, ventilation and seizures. METHODS All patients with OHCA of cardiac aetiology admitted to the ICU from September 2003 to May 2005 (intervention period) were included in a prospective, observational study and compared to controls from February 1996 to February 1998. RESULTS In the control period 15/58 (26%) survived to hospital discharge with a favourable neurological outcome versus 34 of 61 (56%) in the intervention period (OR 3.61, CI 1.66-7.84, p=0.001). All survivors with a favourable neurological outcome in both groups were still alive 1 year after discharge. Two patients from the control period were revascularised with thrombolytics versus 30 (49%) receiving PCI treatment in the intervention period (47 patients (77%) underwent cardiac angiography). Therapeutic hypothermia was not used in the control period, but 40 of 52 (77%) comatose patients received this treatment in the intervention period. CONCLUSIONS Discharge rate from hospital, neurological outcome and 1-year survival improved after standardisation of post resuscitation care. Based on a multivariate logistic analysis, hospital treatment in the intervention period was the most important independent predictor of survival.
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- Kjetil Sunde
- Department of Anaesthesiology, Ulleval University Hospital, Oslo, Norway.
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