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Cerebral Resuscitation and Traumatic and Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury

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The need for improved cerebral resuscitation was born out of progress – advancements in resuscitation, intensive care, and rehabilitation have decreased mortality associated with brain injury in infants and children, but increased the number living with disability. Indeed morbidity, and mortality for that matter, remains unacceptably high. To date, cerebral resuscitation after global ischemic injury due to cardiac arrest and traumatic brain injury (TBI) remains largely supportive, although many promising therapies are being explored at the bench and some at the bedside. This challenge to move innovative monitoring and therapies to the bedside to assist patients in attaining improved outcomes and quality of life has remained elusive. In the interim, optimizing patient care management in the prehospital setting, emergency department, pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), and rehabilitation facilities is our greatest opportunity for improving outcome in these pediatric patients.

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  1. Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Pediatrics and Clinical and Translational Science, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Ericka L. Fink, Dennis Simon & Robert S. B. Clark

  2. Departments of Critical Care Medicine, Anesthesiology, Pediatrics and Clinical and Translational Science, Safar Center for Resuscitation Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Alicia K. Au & Patrick M. Kochanek

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  1. Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Hershey, PA, USA

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  2. Division of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Janet Weis Children’s Hospital, Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, PA, USA

    Frank A. Maffei

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Fink, E.L., Au, A.K., Simon, D., Kochanek, P.M., Clark, R.S.B. (2021). Cerebral Resuscitation and Traumatic and Hypoxic-Ischemic Brain Injury. In: Lucking, S.E., Maffei, F.A., Tamburro, R.F., Zaritsky, A. (eds) Pediatric Critical Care . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53363-2_25

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