The International Cardiac Arrest Research Consortium Electroencephalography Database.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop the International Cardiac Arrest Research (I-CARE), a harmonized multicenter clinical and electroencephalography database for acute hypoxic-ischemic brain injury research involving patients with cardiac arrest.

Design

Multicenter cohort, partly prospective and partly retrospective.

Setting

Seven academic or teaching hospitals from the United States and Europe.

Patients

Individuals 16 years old or older who were comatose after return of spontaneous circulation following a cardiac arrest who had continuous electroencephalography monitoring were included.

Interventions

Not applicable.

Measurements and main results

Clinical and electroencephalography data were harmonized and stored in a common Waveform Database-compatible format.

SUBMITTER: Amorim E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10841086 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature