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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to collect EEG's as close to the cardiac arrest as possible using a standard hospital EEG machine and an investigational EEG device to help determine the neurological status of the cardiac arrest patient and to help decide on possible treatment and chance of recovery. The investigational EEG machine will be simple to operate as well as easy to interpret for the clinician and the nurses. It is not to replace the electrophysiologist interpretation but to determine ealy on if further evaluation and treatment can help the patient.
Survivors of a cardiac arrest frequently develop severe postanoxic encephalopathy. Derangements in cerebral blood after return of spontaneous circulation play an important role in the pathogenesis of postanoxic encephalopathy. In the present study we examine the effect of mild therapeutic hypothermia on cerebral blood flow and carbondioxide reactivity in patients after cardiac arrest.
This is a randomized controlled prospective study which assigned patient to receive manual CPR or automatic CPR machine use. The quality and efficacy between manual CPR and machine CPR will be evaluated.
Hypothermic resuscitation is proven to be benefit to the cardiac origin cardiac arrest patients for it improve brain recovery dramatically. However, traditional cooling devices and methods, most external cooling methods, include ice blanket, cooling helmet, or ice packing lower the body temperature slowly or inefficiently which make many emergency physicians hesitate to perform hypothermic resuscitation. To improve and promote the practice of hypothermia resuscitation, more efficient temperature control method is necessary. We conduct this clinical trial to evaluate the safety and feasibility of internal cooling catheter and temperature regulatory device, which is approved by FDA in neurologic ICU for temperature control, in the cardiac arrest patients.