ArticleNeurocritical care2021
Electrocerebral Signature of Cardiac Death.
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- Diagnostic test accuracy for cessation of circulation during death determination: a systematic review.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Pooled it
- Brain-based arterial pulse pressure threshold for death determination: a systematic review.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2023Pooled it
- [Controlled Donation after Circulatory determination of Death (cDCD) : A position paper by the DCD working group of the German Interdisciplinary Association for Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine (DIVI)].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2026Review
- Characterizing the physiology of circulatory arrest in humans.Nature medicine · 2025Observational
- Clinical heterogeneity and phenotyping of post cardiac arrest brain injury: one size may not fit all.Intensive care medicine · 2025Review
- Knowledge gaps in heart and lung donation after the circulatory determination of death: Report of a workshop of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2024Article
- Aberrant brain-heart coupling is associated with the severity of post cardiac arrest brain injury.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- Variation and convergence in the morpho-functional properties of the mammalian neocortex.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2024Review
- Reduced Heartbeat-Evoked Responses in a Near-Death Case Report.Journal of clinical neurology (Seoul, Korea) · 2023Article
- Temperature Control After Cardiac Arrest: A Narrative Review.Advances in therapy · 2023Review
- What happens in the brain when we die? Deciphering the neurophysiology of the final moments in life.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2023Review
- Between life and death: the brain twilight zones.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Review
- Commentary: Enhanced Interplay of Neuronal Coherence and Coupling in the Dying Human Brain.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundElectroencephalography (EEG) findings following cardiovascular collapse in death are uncertain. We aimed to characterize EEG changes immediately preceding and following cardiac death.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed EEGs of patients who died from cardiac arrest while undergoing standard EEG monitoring in an intensive care unit. Patients with brain death preceding cardiac death were excluded. Three events during fatal cardiovascular failure were investigated: (1) last recorded QRS complex on electrocardiogram (QRS
resultsAmong 19 patients who died while undergoing EEG monitoring, seven (37%) had a comfort-measures-only status and 18 (95%) had a do-not-resuscitate status in place at the time of death. EEG
conclusionsRarely may patients have transient electrocerebral activity following the last recorded QRS (less than 5 min) and estimated cessation of cerebral blood flow. These results may have implications for discussions around cardiopulmonary resuscitation and organ donation.
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