Highly malignant routine EEG predicts poor prognosis after cardiac arrest in the Target Temperature Management trial

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8675409	Resuscitation	2018	22 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Highly malignant routine EEG after targeted temperature management is a strong predictor of poor outcome. A benign EEG is an important indicator of a good outcome for patients remaining in coma.

Keywords

CPC NSE IQR TTM Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy Neuron-specific enolase hypoxic-ischaemic encephalopathy Electroencephalography Cardiac arrest 95% confidence intervals interquartile range Target temperature management EEG Outcome prediction Coma

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Highly malignant routine EEG predicts poor prognosis after cardiac arrest in the Target Temperature Management trial

Authors

S. Backman, T. Cronberg, H. Friberg, S. Ullén, J. Horn, J. Kjaergaard, C. Hassager, M. Wanscher, N. Nielsen, E. Westhall,