A Perspective on Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Description

This book presents a valuable new perspective on Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome (PCAS), which was defined as system failure following whole-body ischemia-reperfusion injuries by the 2008 International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation. Recently, improving the survival rate of PCAS has become a major priority all over the world. A Perspective on Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome addresses various aspects, including: neurological outcomes in non-convulsive status epilepticus, target temperature management, interventions for PCAS after acute coronary syndrome, the significance of measuring lactate clearance, a specific scoring system in prognostication for PCAS, therapeutic indications for suicide hanging cases. This book will help a broad readership, including emergency physicians, intensivists, cardiologists and neurologists treating PCAS patients, to understand the history, current issues and future challenges in PCAS, presented by respected experts in this field. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix A Single-Center Study on Nonconvulsive Status Epilepticus After Cardiac Arrest (Kazuhiro Sugiyama, Yuichi Hamabe)....Pages 1-18 Comparison of Neurological Outcome Between the Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention-First and Targeted Temperature Management-First Strategies in Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients: J-PULSE-Hypo Registry (Hayato Hosoda, Yoshio Tahara)....Pages 19-31 Prognostic Value of Early Lactate Clearance in Patients with Post-Cardiac Arrest Syndrome (Kei Hayashida)....Pages 33-48 Indications for Targeted Temperature Management in Patients After Choking or Suicide Hanging (Yutaka Sakuda, Masaki Nagama, Shoki Yamauchi, Tadashi Iraha, Kiyohiko Kinjoh, Kei Sakugawa)....Pages 49-58 Prediction in Neurological Outcomes in Cardiac Arrest Patients Before Inducing Targeted Temperature Management: Validation of CAST or cCAST (Mitsuaki Nishikimi)....Pages 59-70