Can clinical examination, electrophysiology, neuroimaging, or blood-biomarkers predict good neurological outcome after return of circulation following paediatric cardiac arrest?
Individual prognostic tests can predict good neurological outcome after pediatric cardiac arrest, but due to low-quality and heterogeneous evidence, a standardized multimodal prognostic algorithm is recommended.
Clinical examination, electrophysiology, neuroimaging or blood-biomarkers as individual tests can predict good neurological outcome after cardiac arrest in children. However, evidence is often low quality and studies are heterogeneous. Use of a standardised, multimodal, prognostic algorithm should be studied and is likely of added value over single modality testing.
Scholefield et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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