Resuscitation
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Assessment of brainstem function plays a key role in predicting the neurological outcome after cardiac arrest. However, the relationship of the two quantitative brainstem assessment methods-automated infrared pupillometry (AIP) and auditory brainstem response (ABR)-with neurological prognoses remains unclear. This study compares the prognostic value of AIP and ABR after cardiopulmonary arrest. ⋯ Although AIP and ABR were correlated, the AIP measures were superior in predicting the neurological outcome after cardiac arrest as compared with the ABR measures.
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Editorial Comment
Damaged: Elevated GFAP and UCH-L1 as the Black Flag of Brain Injury.
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Resuscitation research is inconsistent in how emergency department (ED) arrests are classified. We tested whether clinical features of ED arrests more closely resembled out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) or in-hospital cardiac arrest (IHCA). ⋯ Across multiple aggregated measures, ED arrests resemble IHCA more than OHCA.