ERC-ESICM guidelines for prognostication after cardiac arrest: time for an update

Claudio Sandroni^{1

2}, Antonello Grippo^{3

4}, Jerry P Nolan^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy. claudio.sandroni@policlinicogemelli.it.
² Institute of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. claudio.sandroni@policlinicogemelli.it.
³ 1IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocch, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Dipartimento Neuromuscolo-Scheletrico e degli Organi di Senso, SODc Neurofisiopatologia, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
⁵ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK.

Editorial

Claudio Sandroni et al. Intensive Care Med. 2020 Oct.

. 2020 Oct;46(10):1901-1903.

doi: 10.1007/s00134-020-06224-x. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

Claudio Sandroni^{1

2}, Antonello Grippo^{3

4}, Jerry P Nolan^{5

6}

¹ Department of Intensive Care, Emergency Medicine and Anaesthesiology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario "Agostino Gemelli"-IRCCS, Largo Francesco Vito, 1, 00168, Rome, Italy. claudio.sandroni@policlinicogemelli.it.
² Institute of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy. claudio.sandroni@policlinicogemelli.it.
³ 1IRCCS Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocch, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Dipartimento Neuromuscolo-Scheletrico e degli Organi di Senso, SODc Neurofisiopatologia, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
⁵ Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
⁶ Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Royal United Hospital, Bath, UK.

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Comment on

Performance of a guideline-recommended algorithm for prognostication of poor neurological outcome after cardiac arrest.
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