Leading coma experts have created an ambitious plan to help doctors better care for comatose patients and answer that most awful question: “Will my loved one wake up?” The three-part plan outlines key ...
(HealthDay News) – Although neurological tests are highly reliable predictors of death in patients who remain in a coma following cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), withdrawal-of-treatment decisions ...
Curing coma is a primary objective for NCS, and its Curing Coma Campaign focuses on the science and research around neurocritical care and improving patient outcomes CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ...
It is currently impossible to predict when a comatose patient might become conscious again. Some patients wake up minutes or days after a brain injury, while a rare few regain partial consciousness ...
In comatose patients admitted to hospital after being resuscitated from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA), a higher blood pressure target was not beneficial, and a restrictive oxygenation target ...
Whether the treatment of rhythmic and periodic electroencephalographic (EEG) patterns in comatose survivors of cardiac arrest improves outcomes is uncertain. We conducted an open-label trial of ...