Single electroencephalographic patterns as specific and time-dependent indicators of good and poor outcome after cardiac arrest

For many decades EEG has been used routinely for prognostication in postanoxic comatose patients, using various classifications before therapeutic hypothermia (TH) entered clinical practice(e.g. Hockaday et al., 1965; Synek 1988; Young et al., 1997). Despite this widespread use of EEG in clinical practice, the guidelines for prognostication in postanoxic patients published by the American Academy of Neurology (Wijdicks et al., 2006) did not recommend the use of EEG as its prognostic accuracy was still considered insufficient on the basis of pre-TH evidence of EEG studies.

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