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).