Effect of stimulus type and temperature on EEG reactivity in cardiac arrest

In patients with cardiac arrest, therapeutic hypothermia has vastly improved mortality outcomes (Bernard et al. 2002). There remains a need to determine with greater certainty which patients are amenable to favorable recoveries. Electroencephalography (EEG) is now part of the multimodal outcome prediction models available to treating physicians of cardiac arrest patients who undergo therapeutic hypothermia (TH), and EEG background continuity has emerged as a predictor of favorable outcomes (Cloostermans et al.

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