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SUBMITTER: Bonaventura J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5016592 | biostudies-other | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bonaventura Jiří J Alan David D Vejvoda Jiri J Honek Jakub J Veselka Josef J
Archives of medical science : AMS 20160825 5
In spite of many years of development and implementation of pre-hospital advanced life support programmes, the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) used to be very poor. Neurologic injury from cerebral hypoxia is the most common cause of death in patients with OHCA. In the past two decades, post-resuscitation care has developed many new concepts aimed at improving the neurological outcome and survival rate of patients after cardiac arrest. Systematic post-cardiac arrest care af ...[more]