Short-Acting Neuromuscular Blockade Improves Inter-rater Reliability of Median Somatosensory Evoked Potentials in Post-cardiac arrest Prognostication.

NMB significantly improves the inter-rater reliability and SNR of median SSEPs for prognostication among comatose cardiac arrest survivors. To ensure the most reliable prognostic information in comatose post-cardiac arrest survivors, pharmacologic paralysis should be consistently used before recording SSEPs.