Coma due to cardiac arrest: prognosis and contemporary treatment

Approximately 80% of patients who are successfully resuscitated from cardiac arrest do not regain consciousness immediately after return of spontaneous circulation, and may remain in a coma for hours or weeks, or even be in a persistent vegetative state. Recent investigations have focused on the identification of early clinical characteristics and biomarkers that can reliably predict emergence from coma in those who survive, and on therapies that might improve neurologic outcome from the ischemic brain injury that can be caused by cardiac arrest.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  F1000 Medicine Reports

• Publication date

  2009-11-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.3410/M1-89PMID 20948689PMCID 2948325
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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