Post–Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Post–Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, Treatment, and Prognostication

A Consensus Statement From the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation (American Heart Association, Australian and New Zealand Council on Resuscitation, European Resuscitation Council, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, InterAmerican Hear Foundation, Resuscitation Council of Asia, and the Resuscitation Council of Southern Africa); the American Heart Association Emergency Cardiovascular Care Committee; the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia; the Council on Cardiopulmonary, Perioperative, and Critical Care; the Council on Clinical Cardiology; and the Stroke Council Endorsed by the American College of Emergency Physicians, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Society of Critical Care Medicine, and Neurocritical Care Society Robert W. Neumar, MD, PhD, Co-Chair; Jerry P. Nolan, FRCA, FCEM, Co-Chair; Christophe Adrie, MD, PhD; Mayuki Aibiki, MD, PhD; Robert A. Berg, MD, FAHA; Bernd W. Böttiger, MD, DEAA; Clifton Callaway, MD, PhD; Robert S.B. Clark, MD;

Romergryko G. Geocadin, MD; Edward C. Jauch, MD, MS; Karl B. Kern, MD; Ivan Laurent, MD; W.T. Longstreth, Jr, MD, MPH; Raina M. Merchant, MD; Peter Morley, MBBS, FRACP, FANZCA, FJFICM; Laurie J. Morrison, MD, MSc; Vinay Nadkarni, MD, FAHA; Mary Ann Peberdy, MD, FAHA; Emanuel P. Rivers, MD, MPH; Antonio Rodriguez-Nunez, MD, PhD; Frank W. Sellke, MD; Christian Spaulding, MD; Kjetil Sunde, MD, PhD; Terry Vanden Hoek, MD