ICU Vivas · Post-cardiac arrest care
Clinical viva — your approach to the post-arrest patient
A clinical viva on the approach to the post-arrest patient — the normothermia (TTM2), the coronary angiography (COACT), the ventilation (normoxia/normocapnia), the BP, the seizure surveillance, and the prognostication at 72 hours.
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A clinical viva on the approach to the post-arrest patient — the normothermia (TTM2), the coronary angiography (COACT), the ventilation (normoxia/normocapnia), the BP, the seizure surveillance, and the prognostication at 72 hours.
The question
"Take me through your approach to a comatose post-arrest patient."[2]
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- [1]Dankiewicz J, Cronberg T, Lilja G, et al. Hypothermia versus Normothermia after Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (TTM2). New England Journal of Medicine, 2021.PMID 34133859
- [2]Bersten AD, Soni N (eds) Oh's Intensive Care Manual. 8th edition, Elsevier, 2018.