Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

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Post Cardiac Arrest Syndrome

Pathophysiological (who rounds with me knowns is one of my fav words) processes triggered by the whole-body ischemia-reperfusion response that occurs during cardiac arrest and subsequent restoration of systemic circulation.

Why it matters ? Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy ( HIE) is the overall endpoint result of the post- cardiac arrest syndrome .This topic is particularly relevant to neurointsvisits because 1) they can influence it by managing  the post-cardiorespiratory arrest syndrome 2) they lead neuroprognostication.

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Specialty Classifications of Physicians Who Provide Neurocritical Care in the United States

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Specialty Classifications of Physicians Who Provide Neurocritical Care in the United States

We sought to characterize the specialty classification of US physicians who provide critical care for neurological/neurosurgical disease. Physicians with a dedicated clinical neuroscience background accounted for less than half of neurocritical care service in US Medicare beneficiaries.

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Management of the Critically Ill Adult Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell Therapy Patient: A Critical Care Perspective

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Management of the Critically Ill Adult Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell Therapy Patient: A Critical Care Perspective

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, a type of immune effector therapy for cancer, has demonstrated encouraging results in clinical trials for the treatment of patients with refractory hematologic malignancies. Nevertheless, there are toxicities specific to these treatments that, if not recognized and treated appropriately, can lead to multiple organ failure and death.

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Correlation of Noninvasive Blood Pressure and Invasive Intra-arterial Blood Pressure in Patients Treated with Vasoactive Medications

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Correlation of Noninvasive Blood Pressure and Invasive Intra-arterial Blood Pressure in Patients Treated with Vasoactive Medications

The correlation between noninvasive (oscillometric) blood pressure (NBP) and intra-arterial blood pressure (IAP) in critically ill patients receiving vasoactive medications in a Neurocritical Care Unit has not been systematically studied. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between simultaneously measured NBP and IAP recordings in these patients

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