Conclusions
Neurological prognostication in comatose survivors after CA had not been
well understood and performed by emergency physicians in China. They
were more likely to use clinical examination rather than objective
prognostic tools, including EEG, SSEP, neuroimaging and biomarkers. This
also illustrated that multimodal approach was not well performed in
practice. Only a few respondents knew that neurological prognostication
should be performed later than 72h from CA either in TTM or non-TTM
patients. This misunderstanding may cause premature decisions to
withdrawal of life support in practice.
This study was funded by grant from The Comparision of ECPR and CCPR in
Youth cardiac arrest (code:BYSY2016005).