The effect of sedation and time after cardiac arrest on coma outcome prognostication based on EEG power spectra.

ABSTRACT: Early prognostication of long-term outcome of comatose patients after cardiac arrest remains challenging. Electroencephalography-based power spectra after cardiac arrest have been shown to help with the identification of patients with favourable outcome during the first day of coma. Here, we aim at comparing the power spectra prognostic value during the first and second day after coma onset following cardiac arrest and to investigate the impact of sedation on prognostication. In this cohort observational study, we included comatose patients (N = 91) after cardiac arrest for whom resting-state electroencephalography was collected on the first and second day after cardiac arrest in four Swiss hospitals. We evaluated whether the average power spectra values at 4.6-15.2 Hz were predicti

SUBMITTER: Pelentritou A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10353761 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature