
IBCC Episode 124- Neuroprognostication After Cardiac Death
The Internet Book of Critical Care Podcast
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What Is Delayd Awakening?
In the first 72 hours we're going to obtain a lot of information, like we just talked about, e g c c scans, nerologic exams, potentially an m ri if things are looking a little muddy. If they're localizing or withdrawing, that's great, the prian wake up, so that's kind of down a pathway of goodness. And in order to reach a kind of certainty about the fact that the patient is not going to do well, they need to reach two of these kind of like poor prognostics. So no pupils or cornels after 72 hours, by lateral absence of s s ps, highly malignant eg. Ta, really high neuron specific
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