Neurology
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Current guidelines indicate that certain clinical examination findings at 72 hours after cardiac arrest may be useful in prognosis. Some have suggested that hypothermia may alter the examination. We aimed to examine timing of awakening in cardiac arrest survivors treated with hypothermia. ⋯ Awakening after therapeutic hypothermia is usually evident within 3 days of cardiac arrest and not delayed compared with nonhypothermia cases. Mortality in the hypothermia group was not uncommonly preceded by consequences of critical systemic illness.