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20.11.2017 | What's New in Intensive Care
What’s new in prognostication after cardiac arrest: microRNAs?
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 6/2018
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Excerpt
Predicting whether a patient in an intensive care unit after a cardiac arrest (CA) will recover in good condition or will suffer irreversible and severe neurologic damage is challenging. Such prognostication would allow adapting healthcare to each individual, reduce the economic burden on the society, and inform patient relatives about the most plausible outcome at an early stage. It may also eventually serve as a solid basis for withdrawal of life-supporting therapies in futile cases. Current guidelines recommend the use of multimodal strategies for prediction of outcome. Yet, the risk of inaccurate prediction still remains, and complementary modalities may help to improve prediction accuracy. …