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IBCC Episode 124- Neuroprognostication After Cardiac Death

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C T and M Ri

The classic thing you can see on c t can is a reduction or obliteration of the grey, white matter inter pace due to soto toxi. In really bad situations, you cand see hardiation. And there'is a little bit of evidence that you can actually measure the optic nerve with the same way that you would with an old sound and that may give you prognostic information as well. A mori scan is better at seeing if there's a true injury there,. and quantifying how much of the brain scheeminus has been damaged. But in general, i feel it just in general, I fel like the c t scan is like the chest x ray of the brain

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