Early EEG contributes to multimodal outcome prediction of postanoxic coma.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Early identification of potential recovery of postanoxic coma is a major challenge. We studied the additional predictive value of EEG.

Methods

Two hundred seventy-seven consecutive comatose patients after cardiac arrest were included in a prospective cohort study on 2 intensive care units. Continuous EEG was measured during the first 3 days. EEGs were classified as unfavorable (isoelectric, low-voltage, burst-suppression with identical bursts), intermediate, or favorable (continuous patterns), at 12, 24, 48, and 72 hours. Outcome was dichotomized as good or poor. Resuscitation, demographic, clinical, somatosensory evoked potential, and EEG measures were related to outcome at 6 months using logistic regression analysis. Analyses of diagnostic accuracy included rece

SUBMITTER: Hofmeijer J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515041 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature