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NEUROPROGNOSIS AND INDUCED NORMOTHERMIA AFTER CARDIAC ARREST

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This chapter reviews the literature and management of patients with cardiac arrest who warrant therapeutic hypothermia for neuroprotection. Step-by-step review of the important elements about the patient’s history and medical status prior to cooling, inclusion criteria for cooling in the major trials, and monitoring needed while cooled. It then reviews the prognostic value of CT, clinical exam findings, EEG, MRI, somatosensory-evoked potentials (SSEPs), and neuron-specific enolase (NSE).

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  1. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Priya Srikanth

  2. Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Catherine S. W. Albin

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  1. Department of Neurology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Catherine S.W. Albin

  2. Department of Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

    Sahar F. Zafar

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Srikanth, P., Albin, C.S.W. (2022). NEUROPROGNOSIS AND INDUCED NORMOTHERMIA AFTER CARDIAC ARREST. In: Albin, C.S., Zafar, S.F. (eds) The Acute Neurology Survival Guide. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-75732-8_48

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