• Neurocritical care · Aug 2012

    Therapeutic hypothermia and reliability of somatosensory evoked potentials in predicting outcome after cardiopulmonary arrest.

    • Ted Laurence Rothstein.
    • Department of Neurology, George Washington University, 2150 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20037, USA. trothstein@mfa.gwu.edu
    • Neurocrit Care. 2012 Aug 1;17(1):146-9.

    AbstractThe loss of the N20 component on testing median somatosensory evoked potentials (SSEP) has been established as the most reliable indicator of unfavorable prognosis in post-cardiopulmonary arrest patients. With the intervention of therapeutic hypothermia in the management of patients who remain comatose following cardiopulmonary arrest that association is now in dispute. Abandoning SSEP as a key prognostic indicator of neurologic outcome would be a serious loss and cannot be justified.

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