It was not true under therapeutic hypothermia

A recently published article in Switzerland by Kustermann et al1 has reported a high level of the predictive performance of electroencephalography-based power spectra within 24  h from coma onset in patients following cardiac arrest (CA). The authors evaluated the ability of electroencephalography (EEG) to predict long-term outcomes and claimed that on the first day of coma following CA, low power spectra values around 10 Hz, typically linked to impaired cortico-thalam ic structural connections, are highly specific of unfavourable outcome.
Source: Resuscitation - Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Tags: Letter to the Editor Source Type: research