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Hypothermia-treated cardiac arrest patients with good neurological outcome differ early in quantitative variables of EEG suppression and epileptiform activity.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  19487928     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate electroencephalogram-derived quantitative variables after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. DESIGN: Prospective study. SETTING: University hospital intensive care unit. PATIENTS: Thirty comatose adult patients resuscitated from a witnessed out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest and treated with induced hypothermia (33 degrees C) for 24 hrs. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Electroencephalography was registered from the arrival at the intensive care unit until the patient was extubated or transferred to the ward, or 5 days had elapsed from cardiac arrest. Burst-suppression ratio, response entropy, state entropy, and wavelet subband entropy were derived. Serum neuron-specific enolase and protein 100B were measured. The Pulsatility Index of Transcranial Doppler Ultrasonography was used to estimate cerebral blood flow velocity. The Glasgow-Pittsburgh Cerebral Performance Categories was used to assess the neurologic outcome during 6 mos after cardiac arrest. Twenty patients had Cerebral Performance Categories of 1 to 2, one patient had a Cerebral Performance Categories of 3, and nine patients had died (Cerebral Performance Categories of 5). Burst-suppression ratio, response entropy, and state entropy already differed between good (Cerebral Performance Categories 1-2) and poor (Cerebral Performance Categories 3-5) outcome groups (p = .011, p = .011, p = .008) during the first 24 hrs after cardiac arrest. Wavelet subband entropy was higher in the good outcome group between 24 and 48 hrs after cardiac arrest (p = .050). All patients with status epilepticus died, and their wavelet subband entropy values were lower (p = .022). Protein 100B was lower in the good outcome group on arrival at ICU (p = .010). After hypothermia treatment, neuron-specific enolase and protein 100B values were lower (p = .002 for both) in the good outcome group. The Pulsatility Index was also lower in the good outcome group (p = .004). CONCLUSIONS: Quantitative electroencephalographic variables may be used to differentiate patients with good neurologic outcomes from those with poor outcomes after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The predictive values need to be determined in a larger, separate group of patients.
Authors:
Johanna E Wennervirta; Miikka J Ermes; S Marjaana Tiainen; Tapani K Salmi; Marja S Hynninen; Mika O K Särkelä; Markku J Hynynen; Ulf-Håkan Stenman; Hanna E Viertiö-Oja; Kari-Pekka Saastamoinen; Ville Y Pettilä; Anne P Vakkuri
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Evaluation Studies; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Critical care medicine     Volume:  37     ISSN:  1530-0293     ISO Abbreviation:  Crit. Care Med.     Publication Date:  2009 Aug 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2009-07-17     Completed Date:  2009-08-11     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  0355501     Medline TA:  Crit Care Med     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  2427-35     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Affiliation:
Intensive Care Units, Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland. johanna.wennervirta@hus.fi
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Aged
Cerebrovascular Circulation
Electroencephalography*
Female
Finland
Health Status Indicators*
Heart Arrest / therapy*
Humans
Hypothermia, Induced*
Hypoxia-Ischemia, Brain / diagnosis*
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Sensitivity and Specificity
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
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Comment In:
Crit Care Med. 2009 Aug;37(8):2485-6   [PMID:  19609125 ]

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