Management of comatose survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Europe: current treatment practice and adherence to guidelines A Survey by the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) of the ESC, joint with European Resuscitation Council (ERC), European Society for Emergency Medicine (EUSEM) and European Society of Intensive Medicine (ESICM).
Pablo Jorge-PérezNikolaos NikolaouKatia DonadelloAbdo KhouryWilhelm BehringerChristian HassagerBernd BoettigerAlessandro SionisJerry NolanAlain CombesTom QuinnSusanna PriceJohannes GrandPublished in: European heart journal. Acute cardiovascular care (2022)
Post-resuscitation care is not well established and varies among centres in European hospitals. Cardiac arrest centres have a higher coherence with guidelines compared to respondents from non-cardiac arrest centres. The overall inconsistency in approaches and deviation from recommendations could be a focus for improvement.
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