In 2010, under the guidance of the DGAI (German Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive
Care Medicine) and DIVI (German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and …

Hypoxic–ischaemic brain injury (HIBI) is the main cause of death in patients who are
comatose after resuscitation from cardiac arrest. A poor neurological outcome—defined as …

Abstract The European Resuscitation Council (ERC) and the European Society of Intensive
Care Medicine (ESICM) have collaborated to produce these post-resuscitation care …

This executive summary provides the essential treatment algorithms for the resuscitation of
children and adults and highlights the main guideline changes since 2010. Detailed …

JP Nolan et al./Resuscitation 95 (2015) 202–222 203 from 39 countries reviewed thousands
of relevant, peer-reviewed publications to address 169 specific resuscitation questions, each …

Daily interruption of sedative therapy and limitation of deep sedation have been shown in
several randomized trials to reduce the duration of mechanical ventilation and hospital …

Management of coma after cardiac arrest has improved during the past decade, allowing an
increasing proportion of patients to survive, thus prognostication has become an integral …

Objectives To review and update the evidence on predictors of poor outcome (death,
persistent vegetative state or severe neurological disability) in adult comatose survivors of …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) has been called the 'silent epidemic'of modern times, and is the
leading cause of mortality and morbidity in children and young adults in both developed and …

Background Elevated intracranial pressure (ICP) is frequent after traumatic brain injury (TBI)
and may cause abnormal pupillary reactivity, which in turn is associated with a worse …