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ArticleCureus2024

Successful Target Temperature Management After Cardiac Arrest: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature.

Raluca Badila, Simina Mustatea, Sandra Neamtu, Corina Roman

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Article in Cureus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Raluca BadilaAnesthesia and Critical Care, County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Sibiu, Sibiu, ROU.
Simina MustateaPulmonology, Clinical Pneumology Hostpital of Sibiu, Sibiu, ROU.
Sandra NeamtuAnesthesia and Critical Care, County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Sibiu, Sibiu, ROU.
Corina RomanNeurology, County Clinical Emergency Hospital of Sibiu, Sibiu, ROU.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A 20-year-old female was admitted to the hospital after a successful resuscitation from a cardiac arrest due to ventricular fibrillation. She had no prior medical history. The patient was rescued from her house, brought to the hospital with sinus rhythm, sedated, in a coma. Electrocardiography showed no modifications other than the ventricular extrasystoles. Computed tomography showed an epicranian hematoma from the fall that occurred during the cardiac arrest, a heart with a thickened interventricular septum, and the other organs being within physiological limits. Magnetic resonance imaging showed late hypoxic leukoencephalopathy with a level of the white matter of the semioval centers, radiating corona, splenium corpus callosum, and internal capsular posterior arm with extension to the cerebral peduncles. The patient achieved a good neurological outcome with target temperature management and had small neurological improvements every day after resuming spontaneous breathing. After a long intensive care and hospitalization period of six weeks, she was discharged, able to resume her societal status and be a fully recovered individual.

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biomarkerscardiac arresthypoxic encephalopathyneuron-specific enolasetarget temperature managementtherapeutic hypothermia

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PMID39347325
PMCPMC11427931

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