Practice guideline summary: Reducing brain injury following cardiopulmonary resuscitation: Report of the Guideline Development, Dissemination, and Implementation Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the evidence and make evidence-based recommendations for acute interventions to reduce brain injury in adult patients who are comatose after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Methods

Published literature from 1966 to August 29, 2016, was reviewed with evidence-based classification of relevant articles.

Results and recommendations

For patients who are comatose in whom the initial cardiac rhythm is either pulseless ventricular tachycardia (VT) or ventricular fibrillation (VF) after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), therapeutic hypothermia (TH; 32-34°C for 24 hours) is highly likely to be effective in improving functional neurologic outcome and survival compared with non-TH and should be offered (Level A). For patients who are comatose in

SUBMITTER: Geocadin RG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5447399 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature